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HAWTHORNE AND MELVILLE
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
BIOGRAPHY
BORN SALEM 1804
PURITAN ANCESTORS
LIVED AT BROOK FARM
US CONSUL TO BRITAIN
KEY FICTION FEATURES
17TH-CENTURY BOSTON SETTING
STRICT MORALITY FOCUS
JUDGEDMENTAL PURITAN BEHAVIOR
THE SCARLET LETTER
PLOT AND CHARACTERS
HESTER PRYNNE: TEH RED A
ARTHUR DIMMESDALE: SECRET GUILT
ROGER CHILLINGWORTH: REVENGE
PEARL: SYMBOL OF WILDNESS
MAJOR THEMES
GUILT AS PHYSICAL FORCE
PUBLIC SHAME VS PRIVATE GUILT
CONFESSION AND REDEMPTION
LOVE AS REDEEMING FORCE
SOCIAL ISOLATION
LITERARY STYLE
THIRD-PERSON OMNISCIENT
HIGHLY SYMBOLIC/ALLEGORICAL
ELEVATED VOCABULARY
LIGHT AND DARK IMAGERY
HERMAN MELVILLE
WORKS
TYPEE
PIAZZA TALES
THE CONFIDENCE MAN
BILLY BUDD
MOBY DICK
CHARACTERS
ISHMAEL: NARRATOR AND WANDERER
CAPTAIN AHAB: TRAGIC AND OBSESSED
STARBUCK: CALM QUAKER
QUEEQUEG: POLYNESIAN FRIEND
MAJOR THEMES
FATE AND INESCAPABLE PROPHECY
MAN VS NATURE
PRIDE AND HUBRIS
PESSIMISM AND FUTILITY
LITERARY STYLE
BIBLICAL NAMES AND LANGUAGE
PERSONIFICATION OF NATURE
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
LONG , COMPLEX PERIODS
SYMBOLISM
THE WHITE WHALE AS EVIL
THE SHIP AS AMERICAN SOCIETY
THE ROPE AS FATE