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- Hawthorne struggled with his religious faith most of his life, believing that faith was a separate thing from religion. Though often considered to be a devout Puritan believer based on the morals discussed in his stories, he instead focused on what his personal faith in humanism and spirituality (Cameron).
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Speaking of the Unspeakable: Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" Jules Zanger Most criticism has accepted the rather forthright and explicit allegorical inter-pretation of Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" that regards the mark on Georgiana Aylmer's cheek as the external sign of her human, imperfect condition and under-
Abstract: In this essay, I examine Nathaniel Hawthorne’s humanism in Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil. I argue that Hawthorne promotes a humanist world that prizes the intrinsic value of man above religious zeal or political ideology. In each of the two stories, the humanist world was inaugurated by
the aesthetic in Hawthorne’s work illuminates his humanism as it runs against the idealistic revolutionary activity popular during the American Antebellum and Civil War period. Humanism, as I understand it here, confirms Petrarch’s (Francesco Petrarca 1304-1374), view
- Humanity as Matter: “The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
- Life as Matter: Lawrence’s and Darwin’s Materialist Sciences
- Vivacious Materialism
“The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” can be read as a kind of allegory of an attempt to strip humanity of its material basis. In the former story, soon after the scientist Aylmer marries Georgiana, he becomes appalled by the tiny, hand-shaped red birthmark on her cheek and urges her to drink a potion that he has concocted to remove it. This...
Hawthorne’s authorial gestures in “The Birth-mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” oppose the traditional notion of ethereal humanity and proffer a totally different concept of life as a material entity. This resonates with the newly emerging scientific trends in the nineteenth century toward rejecting the older dogma of human spirituality and material...
Now we will more closely explore the particular nature of the materialism that Hawthorne has in common with Lawrence and Darwin. It should be worth noting that this thinking, though treating life as a physiological system and nothing more, nonetheless never reduces life or more particularly human life to mere, machine-like matter. In fact, far from...
- Chiyo Yoshii
- 2020
Mar 26, 2013 · But in Hawthorne’s writings, as in New England society more broadly, we see too that there was no immediate flight from Puritanism to secular humanism. Hawthorne wrestled mightily with spiritual and theological themes, with guilt and sin playing major roles in his body of work.
When he composed the fiction six years after recording its moral core, Hawthorne had had a great deal of exposure to the doctrines of the New England transcendentalists, who may have been responsible for Aylmer's metaphysical dualism and, more particularly, his radical idealism.
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Hawthorne sought to expose the ideology of American exception- alism, to puncture the pious assumptions that characterized the providential vision of the Romantic historians.
