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Mar 26, 2013 · Hawthorne’s elaborately wrought fictions seem designed to reconnect us with a great mythic narrative at the foundation of the Western intellectual and moral tradition: the ultimate cautionary tale of how the acquisition of worldly power beyond one’s ken, and the transgression of venerable taboos and ancient boundaries, will surely lead to physical and moral ruin . . . like all the greatest ...
Aug 26, 2010 · The Moral Conservatism of Hawthorne. Aug 26, 2010. C onservatism in America, though so often defeated at the polls, always has held its head high among men of letters. And in some ways the most influential American writer of conservative instincts was Nathaniel Hawthorne, the “boned pirate,” the master of allegory, that humorous, melancholy ...
Feb 3, 2012 · The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that the Bible was an important and pervasive influence in Hawthorne's fiction. The Bible provides Hawthorne with numerous resources for both his artistic and moral concerns ...
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Nov 26, 2019 · Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s reading in American colonial history confirmed his basically ambivalent attitude toward the American past, particularly the form that Puritanism took in the New England colonies. Especially interested in the intensity of the Puritan-Cavalier rivalry, the Puritan inclination to credit manifestations of the supernatural ...
Hawthorne explores the complexities of human nature and morality within a Christian framework, drawing on Puritan themes and language to create powerful and thought-provoking stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by the Bible throughout his life and career as a writer. As a young man, Hawthorne read and studied the Bible extensively,
Feb 26, 2023 · Hawthorne and Ideas of Good and Evil: Introduction. It is impossible to read much of Hawthorne without realizing that what interested him perhaps more than anything else about human beings is our capacity for evil, our capacity to act out the part of Satan. His novels and stories are filled with characters such as Ethan Brand of "Ethan Brand ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was a nineteenth-century American short story writer, novelist, and darkly romantic. He works primarily with history, religion, and morality. The writings of Hawthorne’s are centered on New England. Most of his works feature moral metaphors with the inspiration of anti-puritanism. His fiction works are deliberated to be a ...
