1. Warm-up
Suppose you were given the chance to be very young again and to start your teenage years over. Would you relive your life differently, or do you think you would make the same mistakes? In one paragraph, jot down your thoughts on what people would do if they were given a second chance.

2. Warm-up Describe the American Romantic Hero.
Describe the American Novel and how it differed from those in Europe.
When and where do you feel you can gather your thoughts best? Explain why.

3. Transcendentalism & Romanticism
Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. American Romanticism Rationalists
the city = opportunity for success and self-realization
Romantics
The city = corruption, immorality, and death
The countryside = purity
Find independence, moral clarity, healthful living
Psychological journey = divine and self discovery

5. Characteristics of Romanticism
Originated late 18th century
An artistic and literary movement.
Intuition over Intellect
Imagination
Emphasis on Nature
Individual, inner life

6. Transcendentalists
In order to determine the ultimate reality of God, the universe, and the self, one must go beyond everyday human experience in the physical world.
Beyond idealists.
Every living thing reflects Divine Soul.
Physical facts = doorway to spiritual realities.
“Every natural fact is a symbols of some spiritual fact.”
Intuition and spontaneous feelings superior to deliberate intellect.
Self-reliance, individualism outweighs conformity.
They went beyond idealists (said that true reality is found in ideas rather than in the world we experience it on a surface, literal level)

7. Dark Romantics Intuition over logic. Signs and symbols in everything.
Believed spiritual facts revealed in nature aren’t always good.
Topics
Good vs. evil
Guilt and sin
Madness
Saw horror of evil

8. The Gothic Setting in a castle An atmosphere of mystery and suspense
Omens, visions
Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
High, overwrought emotion
Women in distress
Gloom and horror
Footsteps approaching
Lights in abandoned rooms
Characters trapped in a room
Ruins of buildings
Thunder & lightening, rain
Sights, moans, howls, screams
Creaking doors and floors
Gusts of wind blowing out lights
Howling wolves/dogs
Crazed laughter

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, born in Salem Ancestor Judge Hathorne.
Shut himself away for twelve years.
Guilty Puritan conscience.
Dark insights about humanity resulted in depression.
Topics: sin, redemption, guilt, aging and death

10. Allegory Two levels of meaning: literal and allegorical. Allegorical
A literary work in which characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities.
Characters are one-dimensional.
What they represent is clear.
Represent one particular aspect of human nature.
Stand for broader concepts (ex: Hope, Wordly, Wiseman, Little Faith)
Moral is taught.
Usually clear to figure out.
Writer WANTS you to know it!

11. Warm-up
Respond to the following questions and explain your opinion. We will not go over this, so make sure you get this done in the first 10 minutes. Add your answers to the bottom of your study questions. Do not write on your warm-up packet today.
Do you think it is true that everyone has things they don’t tell anyone else? Should it be that way?
Is it possible to every REALLY know someone? Do you think that all people are guilty, and are there varying levels of guilt? Why or why not?
Do you think that people should be more open to admitting their wrongs? What are some of the effects when people don’t?
How do people try to avoid facing their faults?
What would a society look like where people don’t blame others?

12. Topics and themes
SIN/FAULTS Theme: Evidence: FACING FAULTS

13. Minister’s black veil Story set in time of Puritan ancestors.
Era characterized by gloom and piety.
Based on true story.
Clergyman died 80 years prior.
Guilty of accidental murder.
From that day until death, he kept his face covered.
PARABLE – short, usually simple story based on events from ordinary life, from which a moral lesson is drawn
Subtitle of story.
Stresses importance of story’s moral theme.

14. Romantic, dark romantic, transcendentalist elements?