Apple QuickTime movie | 1997-12-30 | 12.3 MB | 320x240 | 15fps | 1 minute, 15 seconds
Transcription: Ethan Brand is one of Hawthorne's more powerful works, but it's also one of his more melodramatic and direct. Melville liked it a great deal, mainly because I think Ethan Brand has many parallels to his Captain Ahab. But I don't think the story works because I think the elements are too strained. Hawthorne worked too hard at it. He admitted that when he sent it to his publisher. The key idea there The unpardonable sin is one that he had been posing not quite as explicitly in any number of earlier works. The unpardonable sin, of course, is the triumph of the intellect over the heart. It's the p ...
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