AL final exam Hawthorne

What did Hawthorne and Emerson have in common?

they were both transcendentalist

Several years after publishing Fanshawe, what did Hawthorne try to do?

he decided it was unworthy of him and tried to burn all the copies

Where was Nathanial Hawthorne born? What significance do you know of that location?

He was born in Salem, the same place as the Salem Witch Trails

He set many stories against the gloomy background of ___________,__________________ the world of his ancestors.

Salem

The Marble Faun (1860), though set in Rome, dwells on the Puritan themes of _______, ________, _________, and __________. These themes, and his characteristic settings in Puritan colonial New England, are trademarks of many of Hawthorne's best-known shorter stories.

Sin, isolation, expiation, and salvation

What did Signor Giacomo do to his daughter?

He poisoned her so that her touch and breathe would be fatal

What is the title of the collection of short stories that "Rappaccini's Daughter" was found?

Mosses from an Old Manse

Describe the feminist point of view of the story. Next describe the masculine point of view of the story. This answer can be found in the last paragraph of the link provided.

"feminist critics have examined its treatment of the images of woman, especially in light of gender roles in the nineteenth century"

The Scarlett Letter is considered a ____________ drama.

silent