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Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
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Sin and Salvation in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
In The Scarlet Letter it was shown that the moral law forces evildoers to
pay the last farthing of the debt of sinning. In The Marble Faun the
effect of sin in developing character is emphasized, and Donatello, the
thoughtless creature of the woods is portrayed in his stages of growth
after his moral nature has first been roused by a great crime. The question
is raised, Can the soul be developed and strengthened by sin? The problem
is handled with Hawthorne's usual moral earnestness of purpose, and is
expressed in his easiest and most flexible style. Nevertheless this work
has not the suppressed intensity, completeness of outline, and artistic
symmetry possessed by The Scarlet Letter. The chief defects of The
Marble Faun are a vagueness of form, a distracting variety of scene, and a
lack of the convincing power of reality. The continued popularity of this
romance, however, is justly due to its poetic conception, its atmosphere of
ancient mystery, and its historic Roman background.
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