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Hawthorne’s “Artist of the Beautiful�

Throughout literature, we have come to know many characters who baffle us with

their unusual personalities to the point where branding them as delusional is the easiest

approach to understanding their nature. In other cases we ask ourselves whether or not

the character is living in a dream and perhaps out of touch with reality. We ask

ourselves, what would drive a person to walk into the night with a stranger when all logic

says not to? Why would a person laugh after watching his compatriot suffer public

humiliation? Nathaniel Hawthorne, without a doubt, is notorious for creating strange

characters who puzzle the reader when trying to understand them but of all of

Hawthorne's characters Owen Warland must be the most difficult to analyze. The

troubled young artist in search of the beautiful has become the object of ongoing

criticism as to whether he is living a dream or simply delusional. In any......

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