Nathaniel Hawthorne Flashcards
Place if birth
Salem, MA
Year of birth
1804
History of his father’s family
They were all generally wealthy
Merchants, ship captains, or public officials
Great-great-grandfather
John Hathorne from The Crucible
Age when father died
4
Name of mother
Elizabeth Manning
College attended
Bowdoin College
Description of himself at the college he attended
“An idle student, negligent of cage life and the Procrustean details of academic life, rather choosing to nurse (his) own fallacies.”
Government involved friend
Franklin Pierce
Wife
Sophia Peabody
Transcendentalism
A literary and social movement that dresses human goodness and a reliance on individual rather than societal rules
Commune lived with wife
Brook Farm and Emerson Old Manse
First novel
Title: Fanshawe
Sold portly and he eventually grew to dislike it
He eventually bought and burned unsold copies
Short stories
The Twice Told Tale
Mosses from an Old Manse
The Scarlet Letter
- Published in 1850
- Gave significant financial and critical success
Hester Prynne
- Puritan who commits adultery in colonial MA
- Gives birth to a child with unknown father and is forced to wear a scarlet A for the remainder of her life
Custom-House
- place where goods from recently docked ships arrived, get classified, and taxed
Spoils system
- a type of political cronyism
- entering the government through someone you know because you helped get them the position
Physiognomy
- ability to judge character from appearance
Name what this is: “With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his gal end hearty aspect, altogether, he seemed-not young, indeed-but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had not business to touch.”
Physiognomy
Labyrinthine Sentence
Sentences with complex syntax and which as filled with more phrases and clauses than most writers use in a paragraph
Name what this is an example of: “Poking and burrowing into the heaped-up rubbish in the corner; unfolding one and another document, and reading the names of vessels that has long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves, and those of merchants, never heard if now, nor very readily decipherable on their mossy tombstones; glancing at such matters with the saddened, weary, half-reluctant internet with which we bestow the corpse of dead activity, I chanced to lay my hand on a small package carefully done up in yellow parchment.”
Labyrinthine Sentence
