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Life Story Childhood Education Career The Salem Witch Trials The episode is one of the most notorious cases of mass hysteria （集体发疯）, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, and false accusations. It was not unique, but many have considered the lasting impressions from the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent American history. Education Bowdoin College (1821-1825) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Franklin Pierce (the 14th American president) Career Boston Customs House (1839-41) Salem Customs House (1846-49) US Consul in Liverpool and Italy (1853-59) Literary Characteristics Major Works Black Vision Aesthetics Style Major Works Collections of short stories : Twice-Told Tales 《故事新编》(1837); Mosses from an Old Manse《古屋青苔》(1846) Novels: The Scarlet Letter《红字》(1850); The House of Seven Gables《七个尖角阁的房子》(1851); The Blithedale Romance《福谷传奇》(1852); The Marble Faun《大理石神像》(1860) Black Vision Melville : “霍桑描写黑暗的巨大力量，是由于受到加尔文派交易关于与生俱来的堕落与原罪思想的影响。没有一位思想深邃的人能完全摆脱这种思想所发生的各种形式的影响。” Hawthorne评价Melville, “他既不肯信教，又对自己的不信感到惶恐不安,” 对霍桑同样适用。 Black Vision (1) Evil is at the core of human life. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Black Vision (2) Sin will eventually get punished. “Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral, — the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones… ” — The House of Seven Gables Black Vision (3) Evil educates. The achievement is possible only “under the impact of and by engagement with evil — the tragic rise born of the fortunate fall” . Black Vision (4) Overweening intellect is