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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,1804 born in Salem,Massachusetts,1821-1825 attended Bowdoin College(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,President Franklin Pierce),1824 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,1838 engaged to Sophia Peabody,1839-1841 worked in Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm,Nathaniel Ha,w,thorne,1842 married Peabody,Hawthorne died on May 19,1864,leaving behind his wife and their three children.,Short story collections,Twice-Told Tales,(1837,),Grandfathers Chair,(1840),Mosses from an Old Manse,(1846),Four major romances,The Scarlet Letter,(1850),The House of the Seven Gables,(1851),The,Blithedale,Romance,(1852),The Marble Faun,(1860),Literary style and themes,romance,Puritan New England,symbolism&deep psychological themes,romanticism,guilt,sin,and evil,Humanity,historical fiction,ancestral sin,guilt and retribution,Criticism,Edgar Allan Poe-The style of Hawthorne is purity itself.His tone is singularly effectivewild,plaintive,thoughtful,and in full accordance with his themes.We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth.,Ralph Waldo Emerson-Nathaniel Hawthornes reputation as a writer is a very pleasing fact,because his writing is not good for anything,and this is a tribute to the man.,The Scarlet Letter,(1850)the highest achievement in Nathaniel Hawthornes literary career,Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston,it tells the story of Hester Prynne,who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.,Plot,Characters,Literary Devices,Themes,Genre,Writing style,Initial Situation,Conflict,Complication,Climax,Suspense,Denouement,Conclusion,Dr.Heidegger Character Analysis:,the wise protagonist;,a dark history;,philosopher;,The Guests Character Analysis,The Widow -vanity,Mr.,Medbourne,-greed,Colonel,Killigrew,-pleasure-seeking,Mr.Gascoigne-power-hunger,Symbolism&Imagery,The Elixir,The Bust of Hippocrates,The Skeleton in the Closet and The Portrait of the Lady,The Mirror,The Black Folio,The Rose,Foolishness and Folly,Old Age,Versions of Reality,Transformation,The Supernatural,Parable,Hawthorne condemns man as being foolish in his youth,and posits that,given a second chance,we would all make the same mistakes again.,Dark Romanticism,Dark Romanticism is more interested in psychology,philosophy,and morality.,Gothic,Gothic architecture,:spiral towers and scary,stony facades,the lengthy description of Dr.Heideggers study(para3):,It was a dim,old-fashioned chamber,festooned with cobwebs,and besprinkled with antique dust,Thank you for watching,By,陆艳佳 李小欢 龚晶晶 朱凤 努尔麦麦 俞金鑫,
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