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Hawthorne’S “The Birthmark” As An Introduction To The Modern Debate Of Eugenics, Eve Papa
Hawthorne’S “The Birthmark” As An Introduction To The Modern Debate Of Eugenics, Eve Papa
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This article will contribute to the current debate about eugenics through an analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark.” This will concern the story’s theme and character development, as well the period in which it was written. Of particular interest will be main character’s fixation on the correction of disability in the seemingly isolated world in which he lives. Also relevant is the research of Napier and Garland-Thomson and the literature on disabilities.
Mr. Sammler's Planet: The Terms Of The Covenant, Michelle Loris
Mr. Sammler's Planet: The Terms Of The Covenant, Michelle Loris
English Faculty Publications
For Saul Bellow the essential quest is spiritual: it is a search for humanness in a world that daily assaults and denies such a search. This struggle to be human is the author's one story and the various versions of that same story simply indicate the individual progress each protagonist—Joseph, Asa, Wilhelm, Herzog, Sammler—makes on that journey. To find the genuinely human is the hero's task.