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3 Cards in this Set
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Novelist |
- First great American novelist = Scarlett Letter = Puritan "ideals" - Descendant of Puritans, feels guilty - Opposite of Transcendentalist, critical of self-reliance, it's dangerous. - Not comical writter. Serious, feeling, thought. => modern alagorist => Writing is symbolical. Meaning is relative. AMBIGUITY |
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Young Goodman brown |
- Takes place in Salem = Might suggest that Puritan life might still be present in 19th century. (Witches Sabbath, Halloween) - Narrator keeps sense if Neutrality. - Criticizes Puritans errznd into the wilderness. - Brown = typical puritan = transition from innocence to experience. |
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Moral |
- Hawthorne believes that Human nature itself is devided. - Life is to be interpreted, nothing ver just is. - At the end, clear that it is a dream - Alagorie = symbolic way of writing to interpret the imagination. |
