For my third paper, I will be talking of the relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The House of The Seven Gables and the poem "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" by William Butler Yeats. In the paper I will be describing the social form the burden of history through Hawthorne's use of the Gothic framework and Yeats' utilization of internal speculation about his life. Yeats and Hawthorne both speak of the darkness in one's soul and how the past can come back to haunt the present, as well as how reminiscing can cause pain or pleasure.
Thesis statement: The burden that history places upon one can cause those it affected to relive the mistakes, achievements, pains, and pleasures of the past.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Shedding Some Light On Dark Secrets
This chapter speaks to me as being the most Romantic of all the chapters because of the wizardry and supernatural density presented. This chapter shows to me that The House of Seven Gables belong in the Gothic genre. The death of a young innocent girl is another signifier of the unnatural happening in this novel. This chapter encompasses the book as a whole into one chapter by showing the realism laced with the absurd and supernatural by Hawthorne himself.
By presenting us with a story by Holgrave, Hawthorne is highlighting the fact that through storytelling, one can "hypnotize" an audience such as Maule did to Alice Pyncheon. By being the storyteller, you can almost control how your audience is feeling (tense) or what emotions they will feel (anger,sadness,fear). This is a allegory to how Hawthorne is controlling how we are perceiving the story as it is written. Should we take everything literally, or look for signifiers of the supernatural entanglement.
Speaking of art forms, I thought of how Alice looked at Maule as an artistic individual and became infatuated with him. Infatuation to the point of trusting him to hypnotize her, which, unfortunately, led to her untimely death.
Hawthorne presents storytelling and writing as an art form that uses form and content to tell a story or explain a human condition.
By presenting us with a story by Holgrave, Hawthorne is highlighting the fact that through storytelling, one can "hypnotize" an audience such as Maule did to Alice Pyncheon. By being the storyteller, you can almost control how your audience is feeling (tense) or what emotions they will feel (anger,sadness,fear). This is a allegory to how Hawthorne is controlling how we are perceiving the story as it is written. Should we take everything literally, or look for signifiers of the supernatural entanglement.
Speaking of art forms, I thought of how Alice looked at Maule as an artistic individual and became infatuated with him. Infatuation to the point of trusting him to hypnotize her, which, unfortunately, led to her untimely death.
Hawthorne presents storytelling and writing as an art form that uses form and content to tell a story or explain a human condition.
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