霍桑Nathaniel Hawthorne(英国文学版).ppt

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Early life Career period Major works Literary Style Early life Career period 1936: Editor 1839-1840: Boston Customs House 1842: getting married and living at the Old Manse 1846-1849: Salem Customs House 1952:Buying “Wayside”, Concord 1853-1857: United States Consul at Liverpool 1857-59: Rome and Florence 1860: returning to America Major works Two collections of short stories: Twice-told Tales ,1837《故事重述》 Mosses from an Old Manse ,1843《古宅青苔》 Four major novels The Scarlet Letter ,1850《红字》 The House of the Seven Gables,1851《七个尖角阁的房子》 The Blithedale Romance ，1852《福谷传奇》 The Marble Faun ，1860《大理石雕像》 Famous short stories: Young Goodman Brown(1835) 《小伙子布朗》 The Minister’s Black Veil (1836)《教长的黑纱》 Dr.Heideggers Experiment(1837)《海德格尔医生的实验》 Rappaccini’s Daughter (1844)《拉帕奇尼的女儿》 Literary style Setting Themes Feature Technique Puritan New England Evil sin Ambiguity Symbolism, Psychological revelation Setting : Puritan New England The poverty of materials Combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism. Historical fiction is used as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin. Themes : Evil Sin 1) Dark romanticism 阴郁浪漫主义 Anti-transcendental works from Melville,Hawthorne, and Poe all comprise the Dark Romanticism of literature popular during this time. Themes : Evil Sin 2) Black vision ★Sin will eventually get punished The House of the Seven Gables is an appalling fictional version of Hawthorne’s belief that the “wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.” (一代的恶行会延续至后代） ★Evil educates. Achievement is “under the impact of and by engagement with evil” 经历过犯罪，受到其影响，人们才能有所成就Man is better for the crime which brings about the fall.人在犯罪后才能更好的完善自己 Symbolism The Scarlet Letter is usually regarded as the first symbolic novel to be written in the United States. The end ^_^ * 1.Great American Romantic Novelist 2.Combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism