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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life ( Continued). 1. At 17, he went to study in Bowdoin College, Maine,having Franklin Pierce and Longfellow as his classmates ( the former becoming America’s 14 th President, and the latter the well-known American poet) 2. When 21, he added “w”to his name Hathorne)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life ( Continued) • 1. At 17, he went to study in Bowdoin College, Maine,having Franklin Pierce and Longfellow as his classmates ( the former becoming America’s 14th President, and the latter the well-known American poet) • 2. When 21, he added “w”to his name Hathorne) • 3. 12 years of literary apprenticeship, living in his mother’s home in Salem, Massachusetts ( silent years, writing gloomy stories, walking alone late at night, and reading some two hundred literary books a year) • 4. Befriending Thoreau, working in Brook Farm, cooking and shoveling manure • 5. July 9, 1842, he married Sophia Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life ( Continued) • 6.In August 1847, he met Herman Melville who dedicated his famous novel Moby Dick to him • 7. In 1850, he wrote The Scarlet Letter ( “ hell-fired” masterpiece ) • 8. Though little interested in politics, he considered himself a member of the Democratic Party • 9. He died on May 19, 1864, at the age of 59, while visiting the white mountains of New Hampshire with his friend Pierce, leaving 3 unpublished novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Main Novels 1. The Scarlet Letter • <红字> • 2. Twice-Told Tales (1837) • <重讲一遍的故事> • 3. The Blithedale Romance (1852) • <福谷传奇> • 4. The Marble Faun ( 1860) • <玉石雕像>
What do these faces tell us about women and their world?
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Representative Short Stories • 1. Roger Malvin’s Burial (1832) • 罗杰-马文的葬礼 • 2. Young Goodman Brown ( 1835) • 年轻的小伙子布郎 • 3. The Minister’s Black Veil ( 1836) • 教长的黑面纱 • 4. Rappaccini’s Daughter ( 1844) • 拉帕西尼医生的女儿
The forest in Hawthorne’s world is a Symbol with depth and width. The forest in Hawthorne’s works is a symbol and a place where the good and the evil live side by side.
Hawthorne bloomed and sprouted in the granite of New England, where his Puritan ancestors were determined to build a city upon the hill.
Study questions: • What are the similarities and differences among • these two masters of letters in America? • Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne • Why are the early American literary works more • serious and deep in philosophy?
