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Nathaniel Hawthorne and
His Puritans
Mr. Richard Geib
27 August 2008
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NATHANIEL
HAWTHORNE Old New England
family
Grows up in genteelpoverty
Bowdoin College
Apprenticeship: 10
years alone in atticbrooding on past.
Perfecting writing
style and wrestlingwith demons of past.
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HAWTHONRE AND
FAMILIAL LEGACYThere stands the meeting-house [A] meaner
temple was never consecrated to the worship of thedeity.
And there a woman, - it is Ann Coleman, -naked from the waist upward, and bound to the tailof a cart, is dragged through the Main-street at thepace of a brisk walk, while the constable follows w itha whip of knotted cords He puts his heart into
every stroke, zealous to fulfill the injunction of MajorHawthornes warrant in the spirit and the letter..There came down a stroke that has drawn blood! Tensuch stripes are to be given in Salem, ten in Boston,
and ten in Dedham; and w ith those thirty strips ofblood upon her, she is to be driven into the forest.
Hawthorne,Main Street
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HAWTHONRE AND
FAMILIAL LEGACYLet us thank God for having given
us such ancestors; and let eachsuccessive generation thank him not
less fervently for being one stepfurther from them in the march ofages.
Hawthorne, Main St r eet
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THE CONFLICTED
HAWTHORNE Guilt over family
role in Puritan past
Puritans asintolerant andcruel
Revisionist history:
Puritans as prisonand cemeterybuilding people
But.
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THE CONFLICTED
HAWTHORNE Hawthorne also
bitterly disliked hisown time: theJacksonianDemocracy of the1850s.
Its busy individualism
and materialisticmoney-grubbingnature seemed toothin and flat towrite about.
Hawthorne sets his
romance 200 some
years in the past!
Puritan Era1640-1700
Hawthornepublishes hisScarlet Letter
in 1850.
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AMBIVALENCE TOWARDS
PURITANS Hawthorne took
them seriously
Strong moralfibers and vibrantinner lives
Contrasted tosuperficial andweak willed natureof own time
The CustomHouse!
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HAWTHORNE AND
SALEM CUSTOM HOUSE College friendship
with FranklinPierce
Appointed toCustom House in
Loses positionafter Piercesdefeat in 1848.
Settling old scores
in The CustomHouse President Franklin Pierce1844-1848
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HAWTHORNE AND
SALEM CUSTOM HOUSE Hawthornes
extreme difficultlyin finding areading public
and in making aliving off writing
THEME: Theunappreciatedartist in acommercialsociety.
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HAWTHORNE AND THE
ROMANCE VS. NOVEL
WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardlybe observed that he w ishes to claim a certain latitude,both as to its fashion and material, which he would nothave felt himself entitled to assume had he professed tobe w riting a Novel. The latter form of composition is
presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely tothe possible, but to the probable and ordinary course ofman's experience. The former-while, as a work of art, itmust rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins
unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truthof the human heart-has fairly a right to present that truthunder circumstances, to a great extent, of the w riter'sown choosing or creation. I f he think fit, also, he may somanage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or
mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows ofthe picture.
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HAWTHORNES CAT EYES:GOTHIC ROMANCE AND THETWILIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
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EL GRECO: LIGHT AND
SHADOWS
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EL GRECO: LIGHTAND SHADOWS
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HAWTHORNE AND HIS
PURITANSJust art thou in these
thy judgments, thouwho art and wast, OHoly One. For menhave shed the blood ofsaints and prophets.And thou has giventhem blood to drink! I t
is their due!REVELEATION 16:5-6
The Scarlet Letter as positively a hell-fired story,
into which I found it impossible to throw anycheering light. [Haw thorne]