Hawhorne’s Woman: from Witch to Victim
Hawhorne’s Woman: from Witch to Victim

Summary/Abstract: Trying to establish a hierarchy of Hawthorne’s women is probably a most difficult task. The easiest aspect that everyone notices is the distinction between the dark, or the sinner, and the fair, or the pure, Puritan woman. The paradox here is that it is exactly the dark religion that matches the fair woman. In The American Woman, Emerson said: “All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.” (Bradley, 1965: 1037); it is a good piece of advice.

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