Women, death and theatricality in 'The Blithedale Romance.' (novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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Hawthorne, in his novel 'The Blithedale Romance,' used the conflict arising from the three modes of theatricality to suggest that Zenobia's death denied Coverdale any hope of a reality beyond the illusion the two were living. For Hawthorne theatricality had three natures: deceptive manipulation, the alteration of personal destiny by altering society and piercing society's masquerade to attain authenticity. Hawthorne used references to 'Hamlet' and other Shakespearian plays to convey how these Coverdale was entrapped in theatricality.

Women, Death, 19th century AD, American fiction, Death in literature

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Hawthorne's puritans: From fact to fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne considered his first American ancestors as grim and gloomy, and merciless towards transgressors, reflecting the widespread attitude towards the Massachusetts Bay colonists. It is argued that heretics in his fiction are represented as exceptional individuals, with subversives always defeated by the forces of orthodoxy. He can excuse the sins of his fathers by demonstrating that they were unable to act otherwise.

Puritans

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Hawthorne, pearl and the primal sin of culture

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Hawthorne most famous work of fiction, The Scarlet Letter can stand for the experience of many American readers in relation to what is probably the most important mid-nineteenth-century work of American fiction. Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter specifically alludes to the very figure that Hawthorne's own novel takes up the position of expatriated American: Pearl.

United States, Works, Adultery, The Scarlet Letter (Novel)

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