1. The Brand Metaphor in 'Ethan Brand'
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John Harmon McElroy
- Subjects
Psychoanalysis ,Principal (commercial law) ,Soliloquy ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Metaphor ,Brand extension ,Nothing ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Philosophy ,Ideology ,Event (philosophy) ,Romance ,media_common - Abstract
T HE PRINCIPAL IDEOLOGICAL reference in Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance" is to the "unpardonable sin" of the title-character; the principal event of the story is his suicide by leaping into a furnace. Hawthorne seems to connect the two, the sin and the suicide, in a peculiar way through the name Brand. Just before killing himself Brand feels that he has nothing further to seek; no more to achieve. "'My task is done, and well done!"' he thinks. What he has done is probably stated in his soliloquy of farewell
- Published
- 1972
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