NathanielHawthorne課件(PPT 17頁)

1、Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)The Scarlet Letter “Young Goodman Brown”.第1頁，共17頁。He is “remembered for helping to establish the short story”,he is remembered as a “proponent of instilling morals and lessons into his writing”.第2頁，共17頁。Nathaniel HawthorneHis ancestral burden:Hawthorne was “burdened by

2、the misdeeds of notorious Puritan ancestors”William Hathorne:One of Hawthornes ancesters, he migrated to America with the Puritans in 1630.“ History records that William Hathorne once ordered that a burglar be branded with a B on his forehead” Persecuted Quakers John Hathorne (son of William Hathorn

3、e):Nathaniels great-grandfather“was a prosecuting . . . magistrate at the infamous 1692 witch trials in Salem . . .” .第3頁，共17頁。.第4頁，共17頁?！癢”Family name HathorneNathaniel spells his:Hawthorne .第5頁，共17頁。The House of the Seven Gables“considers the effects of one mans sin upon succeeding generations”“Th

4、e wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief.”.第6頁，共17頁。.第7頁，共17頁。LifeHawthornes father, a sea-captain, died of yellow fever in Dutch Guiana, leaving his widow to mourn him during a long

5、life of eccentric seclusion, and this influenced her sons somber and solitary attitude.Read widely.Graduated from Bowdoin College: Longfellow, Franklin Pierce.Returned to Salem. Published his first novel Fanshawe and Twice-Told Tales.Worked at the Customs House.Joined the transcendentalist community

6、 of Brook Farm.Turned to more profitable novels. Enjoyed frequent visits with his neighbor Herman Melville.Served as U.S. Consul at Liverpool.第8頁，共17頁。The Custom House, Salem.第9頁，共17頁。.第10頁，共17頁。Subjects and Themesthe New England past and the subject and setting.Human psychologyIntellect vs. feeling

7、 and warmthSin and evilPuritanismA Moralist, a master of psychological insight, the first major novelist to wed morality to art.第11頁，共17頁。Major Comment on Hawthornes ThemesHawthorne was imbued with an inquiring imagination, an intensely meditative mind, and an unceasing interest in the ambiguity of

8、mans being. He was an anatomist of “the interior of the heart”, conscious of loneliness of man in the universe, of the darkness that enshrouds all joys, and of the need of man to look into his own soul. -Bode.第12頁，共17頁。StyleRomanceSymbols and settingNarrative skillsSoft, flowing styleAmbiguityAllego

9、ryThe supernatural.第13頁，共17頁。WorksCollection of Short StoriesTwice-Told Tales (1837)Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1851)“Young Goodman Brown” “The Ministers Black Veil”“Ethan Brand”“Dr. Heideggers Experiment”Novels: The Scarlet Letter, a treatment of the ef

10、fects of sin on the human spirit.The House of Seven Gables(1851)The Blithedale Romance (1852)The Marble Faun (1860).第14頁，共17頁?！癥oung Goodman Brown”Written in 1835“Known for being one of literatures most gripping portrayals of seventeenth-century Puritan society”.第15頁，共17頁。Summary“Young Goodman Brown

11、 tells the tale of a young Puritan man drawn into a covenant with the Devil. Browns illusions about the goodness of his society are crushed when he discovers that many of his fellow townspeople, including religious leaders and his wife, are attending a Black Mass. At the end of the story, it is not

12、clear whether Browns experience was nightmare or reality, but the results are nonetheless the same. Brown is unable to forgive the possibility of evil in his loved ones and as a result spends the rest of his life in desperate loneliness and gloom.”.第16頁，共17頁。Characters: Young Goodman Brown Faith Devil / Old Goodman Brown Goody Cloyse, the Minister, and Deacon Gookin. Goody Cloyse, Goody Cory, Martha Carrier. Themes: Good / Evil; Alienation/Communi