- Roger Chillingworth (the husband)
- Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (the lover)
- Hester Prynne
- Pearl
- the frame narrative is called "The Custom House"
The House of Seven Gables
- Hepzibah Pyncheon
- Maule, Phoebe, Holgrave and Clifford Pyncheon
The theme is the sins of the father visited upon later generations of the family.
It begins:
"Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm."
The Blithedale Romance
- Miles Coverdale
- Hollingsworth
- Zenobia
- Priscilla
- Blithedale Farm (based on Brook Farm)
We had pleased ourselves with delectable visions of the spiritualization of labor.... [but] the clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored and turned over and over, were never etherealized into thought.
Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast becoming cloddish. Our labor symbolized nothing, and left us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening. Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise. The yeoman and the scholar—the yeoman and the man of finest moral culture, though not the man of sturdiest sense and integrity—are two distinct individuals, and can never be melted or welded into one substance
Brook Farm
- transcendentalist Utopian experiment
- located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts
- Hawthorne spent some time at Brook Farm and presented a fictionalized portrait of it is The Blithedale Romance
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