Beyond the Blackness: Transcendentalism in Hawthorne's Major ries

• Main Authors: Lee Fang-lieh, 李芳烈
• Other Authors: Chen Yuan-yin
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 1993
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22213626222057384454

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 81 === After Emerson delievered his "The Divinity School Address" in which the metaphysical meaning of morality has greatly propagated, Transcendentalism is no more socially isolated and purly intuitive. The benevolence in social practice becomes an issue that Emerson concerned most. The thesis attempts to reveal the benovelent connotation of Transcendentalism in Hawthorne's literature through the study of the blackness in his major stories. In the first chapter, a brief introduction of the suffering caused by social blackness is proposed. Theond chapter deals with the trouble and strifes on politics, religion, and intellect that Hawthorne presents in some of his short stories, and then the blackness introduces the possibility of emancipation. It is followed by an exploration of the emancipation from suffering of the blackness through a analytic study of Ethan Brand, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester Prynne in the Chapter Three. At last, I conclude by a demonstration of Hawthorne's relation to Transcendentalism with a discussion of the viewpoints of Matthiessen.