About Ralph Waldo Emerson
1. It is not worth the while to go around the world to count the cats in zanzibar. (Emerson)
2. His essay often with three theme: nonconformity, self-seliance, anti-institutinal. Also he lives his life based on these three criteria.
3. He influences Henry Daid Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, and Whitman.
4. Romantic period: individualism + emotionalism + humanism
5. Reformism is started from Emerson.
6. His first book : Nature
About Nature
1. Trascendentalists. Participants include Bronson Alcott and Henry David Thoreau.
2. 強調個人想法的渺小: valuing individual right
3. Transcend according to Emerson, for reason the intuition arise from a higher faculty within man because of which he can know ultimate truth.
4. Man's self is divine. 天助自助者， 人是神的一部份的概念
5. Emphasize on the solitude, loneliness, and alone.
=> William Wordsworth "I wondered lonely as a cloud." (Bliss of solitude)
4-1. Nature
4-2. Books
4-3. Man thinking
4-4. Practical men (Travelling is a fool’s paradise)
4-5. Patience ( walk on our own feet)
5. Each of All
5-1 "The heifer (母牛) that lows inthe unpland farm"
5-2 "The life to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone."
=> John Done "No man is an island."
5-3 "Full of light and of deity(God)"
5-4 "Again I saw, again I heard,
The rolling river, the morning bird;
Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole."
=> One stands for the rest of us.
About Nathaniel Hawthorne
1. "The most valuable example of American genius."
2. Hawthorne's hometown is Salem, Massachusetts which is the setting in The House of the Seven Gables; Hawthorne later lived in Concord.
3. Three major themes: 3-1 the embrace between life in death
3-2 the relation between sanctity and paganism
3-3 inherited guilt and traditional curses
3-4 the ravage of moral decay
3-5 the importance of beauty in a dark and alien
world
4. He dicoverd his love of reading, displaying this particular interest in John Bunyan's Puritan allegory The Pilgrim's Progess.
5. In the setting he devic=ses the evil is palpable.
6. He detested and derided its iron doctrine of evil.
=> 賦予醫生邪惡的形象 : "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
7. Work: The Scralet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
"My Kinsman" (文化獨立的討論 / 政治預言在其中)
"Young Goodman Brown"
About The Scarlet Letter
1. In the book, the letter "A" stands for
2. The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his magnum opus.
3. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649
4. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
About My Kinsman, Major Molineux
1. 文化獨立的討論 / 政治預言在其中
2. P607 the strange figure
P608 Ferryman => Styx 冥合渡者Charon
=> Araby: is a short story by James Joyce published
in his 1914 collection Dubliners.
P618 Climax
3. It is a short story written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1831.
About Young Goodman Brown
1. Setting: village <-------> forest (wood)
(civilize) (full of unknown possibilities)
2. It is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, except those who are born in a state of grace.
patr-: father
arc-: order
=> patriarchal 父權主義
bel-: war
ante-: before
=> antebellum 南北戰爭
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