The Subject s Eclipse and the Absence of Otherness——Family Concept in Hawthorne s Fictions

Hawthorne has a lively description of marital problems in America based on moral criticism,expresses his very detached attitude to that.From great families in the Colonal Period to modern nuclear families,the influence of male power consciousness,morality of marriage and his own experience on Hawthorne s family concept is very obvious in his fictions.Hawthorne conveys his anxiety of the subject s rebuilding and the expectation of otherness,as by artistic means of the subject s eclipse and the Absence of oth...