THE DEEP ONES: "Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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1gwendetenebre
"Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Discussion begins April 3, 2024.
First published in the Jan 5, 1850 Boston Weekly Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?87143
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre
Gothic Short Stories
Hawthorne's Short Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/ethan-brand
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/513/513-h/513-h.htm#chap04
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNFzS3VN2a8
MISCELLANY
https://electricliterature.com/move-over-poe-the-real-godfather-of-gothic-horror...
http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/essa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne
https://tinyurl.com/582x6uaz
Discussion begins April 3, 2024.
First published in the Jan 5, 1850 Boston Weekly Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?87143
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre
Gothic Short Stories
Hawthorne's Short Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/ethan-brand
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/513/513-h/513-h.htm#chap04
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNFzS3VN2a8
MISCELLANY
https://electricliterature.com/move-over-poe-the-real-godfather-of-gothic-horror...
http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/essa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne
https://tinyurl.com/582x6uaz
2RandyStafford
Baffled by this one. It doesn't seem to be allegorical, and it doesn't seem to be standard Christian theology which, if I understand it right, says there is no Unpardonable since God can and will forgive anything if repentance and grace are there.
Nor do I really see the relevance of the biblical Esther to Humphreys' daughter.
I think Brand's sin is cutting himself off from humanity. Perhaps we are to infer that even out of Brand's hard, antisocial heart good comes in the form of fertilizer.
There may be some Transcendental theme here, but I don't know much about Transcendentalism.
My version had a subtitle: "A Chapter from an Abortive Romance". Was this from a longer work Hawthorne planned? Does "abortive" refer to the life Brand could have had but for his quest?
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables both followed, within a couple of years, this story. But I don't really sense this is another attempt to explore the themes of those novels.
Nor do I really see the relevance of the biblical Esther to Humphreys' daughter.
I think Brand's sin is cutting himself off from humanity. Perhaps we are to infer that even out of Brand's hard, antisocial heart good comes in the form of fertilizer.
There may be some Transcendental theme here, but I don't know much about Transcendentalism.
My version had a subtitle: "A Chapter from an Abortive Romance". Was this from a longer work Hawthorne planned? Does "abortive" refer to the life Brand could have had but for his quest?
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables both followed, within a couple of years, this story. But I don't really sense this is another attempt to explore the themes of those novels.
