Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (text)

"Young Goodman Brown" (text)

The Scarlet Letter 《紅字》(text, Trailer)

He's a Pilgrim.

Pilgrims 清教徒(激進) ←→ Puritans 朝聖者(溫和)

History guilt

Almost every pieces of his work reveals his curios fascination with sin and its effects on the human soul.

(1) the relation between good and evil- between sanctity and paganism.

(2) the embrace between life in death and death in life.

(3) inherited guilt and traditional curses.

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Herman Melville (1819-1891)

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (text, Trailer)

A e-text website named after it: Bartleby.com

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The Firm 《黑色豪門企業》(1993), based on novel The Firm by author John Grisham.

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New Words:

customs:

The place at aport, airport, or border where officials check that the goods that people are bringing into a country are legal, and whether they should pay customs duties.

armor:

Metal clothing that soldiers wore in the middle ages to protect their bodies.

distorted:

Misshape; misrepresent.

exe-: 執行。

execute.

ac-: take.

acknowledge.

betrayal:

An act of selling someome out, or going back on sb.

absurdist:

荒謬主義的。

荒謬主義者。

en-: 障礙。

encounter.

man-: hand.

manual(手工的) job.

manipulate: to influence someone, or to control something, in a clever or deshonest way.

manuscript. 手稿。

script:

Handwriting.

transcript:

Something transcribed, especially a written, typewritten, or printed copy.

(Like the transcript of court testimony; an academic transcript.)

description:

The act, process, or technique of describing.

fraud:

A trick or cheat.

e-: out.

erupts, epiphany.

il-: 反對。

illicit, illegal, illusion.