"The Scarlet Letter"--One Hundred Years after
1950; The MIT Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/361424
ISSN1937-2213
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Resumodiscover that they represent different sides of his own personality. Through them he explores the necessity of Art as a way of expiating his feeling of guilt towards his Past, as well as the relationship of the isolated individual to the outside world. Certainly Hawthorne's feeling of solitude produced a conflict in his mind, a mental state akin to guilt, that was, as Newton Arvin has pointed out, to become a central problem in the stories and novels. Deeply rooted in his Past, Hawthorne's feeling was dualistic in nature. When he went to Raymond, Maine, with his mother, he remembered that here in this fine wild solitary place he spent some of the happiest moments of his life, but that here also he acquired the cursed habits of solitude. Habituated by the early life with his mother, and by a three years' confinement while convalescing from a foot injury and a temporary lameness, Hawthorne was hardly trained to deal with a world of computations and accounts when he went to work in his uncle's stagecoach business in Salem. He wrote his mother: No man can be a Poet and a bookkeeper at the same time.
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