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May 19, 1864, at the age of 59, while visiting the white mountains of New Hampshire with his friend Pierce, leaving 3 unpublished novels

What links the two together?

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 >

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Downfall of Adam and Eve Downfall of Dimmstale and Hester

What is w

rong with

them?

What do these faces tell usabout 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 aSymbol with depth and width.

The forest in Hawthorne’s works is asymbol 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 determinedto build a city upon the hill.

Study questions:1. What are the similarities and differences among these two masters of letters in America? Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne2. Why are the early American literary works more serious and deep in philosophy?

The same or different?