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...imagined the spectacle as something like “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne??s 1835 tale of a husband in Salem who encounters a nocturnal meeting where “the smile of welcome gleamed darkly on every visage.” Among the clergy and sanctimonious elders he glimpses is his wife, she of the pink ribbons, ready for induction into the world of sin Goodman so fears. Afterward, Goodman becomes a silent, suspicious man, not trusting his wife, Faith...
...wife, or faith, to lose; I could hope for a view-altering experience without fear. But the unholy ritual at Loews channeled less Hawthorne??s Salem than the New England of my day. Which is to say, Harvard...
...that Cheever’s work is completely devoid of content. From time to time she makes insightful connections between the authors’ journalized experiences and their literary achievements. For instance, the parallels she suggests between Fuller’s influence on Hawthorne??s “The Scarlet Letter” and on Alcott’s “Moods” seem to be spot-on. But Cheever only sprinkles in these academic observations and then ignores them to gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck...
...humor with a subtle message about the pervasiveness of human hypocrisy. Directed by Faith O. Imafidon ’07, and co-produced by Christian I.C. Strong ’09 and Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, “In the Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne??s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare...
...play may be less shockingly titled than Parks’ other Hawthorne-inspired work, 2000’s “Fucking A,” it still promises to unnerve Harvard students, at least according to those involved in the production. Parks takes the social commentary of Hawthorne??s original one step further: while “In the Blood” is still very much a meditation on themes such as guilt, adultery, and other dusty Puritan affairs, the play also extends and ruminates on a range of modern ills, including poverty, homelessness, and the exploitation...