| This thesis attempts to take a geometrical approach to Hawthomesque Romance in his "New England trilogy". It presents one group of geometrical forms. And it interprets how the geometrical figures of speech shape the responses to fictional characters and narrators to the context. And then it indicates how the geometrical representations become the metaphors of Hawthorne's Romance.Chapter one details the dramatic use of circular imagery that Hawthorne employs in The Scarlet letter, and it discusses the metaphorical "office" the circle indeed succeeded in performing. In this chapter, it will become clear how the symbolic functions in the artistic medium between the actual and the imaginary in Hawthorne's romances. Chapter Two discusses Clifford Pyncheon's train board oration on the meaning of time, history, and progress centers on the figure of ascending spiral curve. The Romance is defined as political medium: Hawthorne presents love as a solution tothe social and political problems. The image of parallelogram which frames the narrative perspective of Miles Coverdale, a removed observer, in The Blithedale Romance becomes the subject of Chapter Three. Here, the Romance is defined as narrative medium.The study has illustrated that in choosing the Romance Hawthorne is involved in three-fold negotiations with his pursuit of art, politics, and narrative strategy. Since the Romance transcends any mono-dimensional conception, it can also be thought of as Hawthorne's poetics of culture.
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