The Scarlet Letter And The Modern Media
The Scarlet Letter and the Modern Media: Synthesis and Analysis Writing Read the cartoons below. Write down what each cartoonist and editor believes. What are the writer’s attitudes (tone) toward the subjects or characters in the cartoons? What rhetorical devices or literary elements are they using to create their meaning. Come to class with your ideas listed and be prepared to discuss your own ideas in a small group.
Literary Style and Themes
Hawthorne’s work belongs to Romanticism, an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human imagination, and on nature in a typically idealized form. Romantic literature rebelled against the formalism of 18th century reason.
Much of Hawthorne’s work is set in colonial New England, and many of his short stories have been read as moral allegories influenced by his Puritan background. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s
Born
July 4, 1804(1804-07-04)
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died
May 19, 1864 (aged 59)
Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States
Occupation
Novelist, Short story writer, Custom House worker, United States Consul
Literary movement
Romanticism
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation’s colonial history.
Shortly after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hathorne changed his name to Hawthorne. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. In 1837, he published Twice-Told Tales and became engaged to Sophia Peabody the next year. He worked at a Custom House and joined a Transcendentalist Utopian community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires,
Literary Style and Themes
Hawthorne’s work belongs to Romanticism, an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human imagination, and on nature in a typically idealized form. Romantic literature rebelled against the formalism of 18th century reason.
Much of Hawthorne’s work is set in colonial New England, and many of his short stories have been read as moral allegories influenced by his Puritan background. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s
Born
July 4, 1804(1804-07-04)
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died
May 19, 1864 (aged 59)
Plymouth, New Hampshire, United States
Occupation
Novelist, Short story writer, Custom House worker, United States Consul
Literary movement
Romanticism
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation’s colonial history.
Shortly after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hathorne changed his name to Hawthorne. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. In 1837, he published Twice-Told Tales and became engaged to Sophia Peabody the next year. He worked at a Custom House and joined a Transcendentalist Utopian community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires,