Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter 鲁凤鸣19 赵文琪31 留玉琼 05 张佳美17 谢俊文28 Identity Tag Biography Influences on Hawthorne Hawthorne’s point of view content Thematic Concerns Hawthorne’s Major Works Hawthorne’s aesthetic ideas
Style The Scarlet Letter 3 American novelist Short story writer A central figure in the American Renaissance Greatest Romance writer Pioneering psychological novelist Moral novelist “Like EdgarAllan Poe, Hawthorne took a dark view of human Nature.” Identity Tag: 4 Born July 4, 1804 entered Bowdoin College in 1821 first work Fanshawe, in 1828 marrying Sophia Peabody in 1842 Scarlet Letter in 1850 Died May 19, 1864 Biography: Influences on Hawthorne Salem - early childhood, later work at the Custom House. Puritan family background - one of his forefathers was Judge Hathorne, who presided over the Salem witchcraft trials, 1692. Belief in the existence of the devil. Belief in determinism(宿命论). ★Hawthorne’s point of view Hawthorne is influenced by Puritanism(清教主义) deeply. He was not a Puritan himself, but he had Puritan ancestors who played an important role in his life and works. Melville : “霍桑描写黑暗的巨大力量,是由于受到加尔文派关于与生俱来的堕落与原罪思想的影响。没有一位思想深邃的人能完全摆脱这种思想所发生的各种形式的影响。” Hawthorne评Melville:“他既不肯信教,又对自己的不信感到惶恐不安。”对霍桑同样适用。 ★(1) Evil is at the core of human life. Hawthorne sense of sin and evil in life, “black” vision of life and human is haunted Evil exists in the human heart, human heart is the source of evil. Everyone possesses some evil secret. Evil is man’s birthmark(胎记). a most disturbed and tormented one, discusses sin and evil in almost every book literary world rejects the Transcendentalist optimism looks more deeply and more honestly into life, finding much suffering & conflict in it ★(2) Whenever there is sin, there is punishment. Sin or evil can be passed from generation to generation The House of the Seven Gables 《带有七个尖角阁的房子》Colonel(陆军上校) Pyncheon takes the land of Matthew Maule and builds a ho
