2. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life ( Continued) 1. At 17, he went to study in Bowdoin College, Maine,having Franklin Pierce and Longfellow as his classmates ( the former becoming America’s 14 th President, and the latter the well-known American poet) 2. When 21, he added “w”to his name Hathorne) 3. 12 years of literary apprenticeship, living in his mother’s home in Salem, Massachusetts ( silent years, writing gloomy stories, walking alone late at night, and reading some two hundred literary books a year) 4. Befriending Thoreau, working in Brook Farm, cooking and shoveling manure 5. July 9, 1842, he married Sophia Peabody

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life ( Continued) 6.In August 1847, he met Herman Melville who dedicated his famous novel Moby Dick to him 7. In 1850, he wrote The Scarlet Letter ( “ hell- fired” masterpiece ) 8. Though little interested in politics, he considered himself a member of the Democratic Party 9. He died on May 19, 1864, at the age of 59, while visiting the white mountains of New Hampshire with his friend Pierce, leaving 3 unpublished novels

4. What links the two together?

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Main Novels 1. The Scarlet Letter 2. Twice-Told Tales (1837) 3. The Blithedale Romance (1852) 4. The Marble Faun ( 1860)

6. FaFa Downfall of Adam and Eve Downfall of Dimmstale and Hester

7. What is wrong with them?

8. What do these faces tell us about women and their world?

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Representative Short Stories 1. Roger Malvin’s Burial (1832) 罗杰 - 马文的葬礼 2. Young Goodman Brown ( 1835) 年轻的小伙子布郎 3. The Minister’s Black Veil ( 1836) 教长的黑面纱 4. Rappaccini’s Daughter ( 1844) 拉帕西尼医生的女儿

10. The forest in Hawthorne’s world is a Symbol with depth and width. The forest in Hawthorne’s works is a symbol and a place where the good and the evil live side by side.

11. Hawthorne bloomed and sprouted in the granite of New England, where his Puritan ancestors were determined to build a city upon the hill.

12. Study questions: 1.What are the similarities and differences among these two masters of letters in America? Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne 2.Why are the early American literary works more serious and deep in philosophy?

13. The same or different?