On Nathaniel Hawthorne's Views On Industrial Culture And His Novels' Working

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the American Romanticist writers in the nineteenth century. He created many masterpieces which are popular for generations. The money-worship of the society and the mental crisis of the people urge him to devote himself to explore the human nature, criticize the evil of the human mind and seek the way to save the humanity. His works explore the pain suffered from the broken, evil or hypocritical family and lonely individual. Confronted with soaring of the capitalism, the dramatic change of society and the conflict of the religion and science, he shows his puzzlement and bewilderment to the development of the science and technology. Started from the religious prejudice and humanism, he associates the development of the intellectuality and the shrink of the consciousness and emotion, denying the human being's every effort of conquering the nature, doubting and negating the progress of the science and technology, deprecating the individual who is indulged in science at any cost. Faced with the age of mammonism, he rethinks the modernization and reconsiders the threat and dominance of the materialism on the human being with his keen insight on religion. He not only exemplifies the self disappointment, loneliness and alienation in the real world from the reality but also criticizes the evil of the human nature from culture perspective. At the same time, with his own esthetic perspective, he tries to seek a way to get out of the situation of alienation and hopes to seek the spiritual home of human being by returning to the nature.Based on Hawthorne's main works and literary thought, this thesis is trying to investigate the industrial culture view which revolves in the following three aspects respectively: the self-loss, alienated society, and returning to spiritual home. At the same time, the thesis tries to elaborate the formative reasons of Hawthorne's industrial culture view from the basis of his incomplete view of the reality, the exceeding of the"evil"and the pursuit of"beauty". At last, From Hawthorne work subject: In criticizes between "wickedly" "and pursue "beautiful swings, character image multiplicity, illusionand expression means fuzziness, not definite these three aspects, talk about Hawthorne's industrial culture view and his creating style will be researched, with the hope of a thorough mastering of his industrial culture view as well as a deep understanding of his literary thought.