Hawthorn’s Words, Voices, and Music : Short Stories Leading to The Scarlet Letter

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  • ホーソーンの言葉と声，音楽 : 『緋文字』へつながる短編
  • ホーソーン ノ コトバ ト コエ,オンガク : 『 ヒ モジ 』 エ ツナガル タンペン

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This paper focuses on the relationship among words, voices, and music as the key to reading Hawthorne's work; it considers the linguistic meaning and voices of the characters, as well as the musical voices. It clarifies the phenomenon caused by the combination and balance of those factors, and rereads from a new angle the problems of crime and romance, which are themes specific to Hawthorne. Hawthorne’s typical romance is The Scarlet Letter. However, this paper takes up “The Birth-mark,” “The Celestial Railroad,” “The Artist of the Beautiful,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter : From the Writings of Aubépine,” the four works that were published before The Scarlet Letter, and explores the connection of the four works with The Scarlet Letter. In these short stories, you can see the romantic elements and the expression of musical voices that try to create the truth of the human heart as an art work written by Hawthorne. It can be seen that Hawthorne had been trying various combinations of word meanings and voices since the time of his writing short stories.

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