REALITY AND ROMANCE IN THE NOVELS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHRONE
Keywords:
passions and emotions, nineteenth century, socio-cultural, obstructedAbstract
Nathaniel Hawthrone is a famous novelist of nineteenth century who was deeply affected by the history of New England in which he was born "A mild shy. Gentle melancholic, exceedingly sensitive and not very forcible man.” Hawthrone primarily deals with the individual‟s passions and emotions of love and the reaction of the society against them. The individual who loves romantic and fanciful pursuits is always tamed and obstructed by the hard and harsh realism of society as the society punishes him in form or the other and this represent the inter play of reality and romance in novels of Howthrone that in turn also reflects the socio-cultural edifice of the American society which always formed the cornerstone of Hawthrone‟s fiction.
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