→An American novelist and short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions.
(故居:Salem /祖父是法官，曾經參與燒女巫的案子)
*通姦: adulterous affair
*Character:
-Heroine: Hester Prynne /Baby: Pearl / Husband: Roger Chillingworth /情夫: Arthur Dimmesdale (牧師)
*Setting:
-forest, woods相對於village來說，充滿無限的可能性
*Doctor
原: proud/可以扭轉生命→書中:負面形象(e.g. Roger Chillingworth每天躲在森林裡偷偷觀察Hester)
§Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
→An American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
→‘Travelling is fool’s paradise.’
§Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
→An American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
*去標籤用 liquid paper
*漂白水 Bleach: Whiteness clothes, removes stains, enhances cold water cleaning power, clans & deodorizes, safe for most colorfast washable fabrics.
*Blanche Dubois (亂世佳人的女主角)
§William Wordsworth
→A major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times.
→‘I wandered lonely as a cloud.’ 數大便是美
→‘Bliss of solitude’
§文人 (p.536)
→Men of letters
§Romantic period
>Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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