Marble Faun

B.) Character introduction and main point.

1. a.) Donatello’s character development.

b.) Donatello’s & Miriam’s initial reactions to the murder.

a.) Donatello’s growing guilt and sorrow.

c.) Donatello’s and Miriam’s love for each other.

c.) The strength of the bond of Donatello’s and Miriam’s love.

c.) Hilda’s reaction of Miriam’s magnetism.

a.) Donatello’s growth and maturity.

Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun has all of the typically themes of a Hawthorne work: guilt, concealment, transformation, forgiveness and redemption. These themes are illustrated through the interconnected relationships and actions of four characters: Donatello, Miriam, Hilda and Kenyon. Donatello is an innocent faun-like Italian aristocrat. Hilda and Miriam are painters and Kenyon is a sculptor. There is also a very significant fifth character, an artist’s model and a monk. The main focus of the novel will not be the sin committed by Donatello – the murder of the monk - but ho

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is response lets us know he has learned the rewards of human love: “Our lot lies together. Is it not so? Tell me, in Heaven’s name, if it be otherwise!” (Hawthorne). Kenyon admonishes Miriam for Donatello’s transformation from a “wild and happy state” to one of thinking that the hoys he cannot find elsewhere he can “find on earth” (Hawthorne). Nevertheless, Kenyon also encourages Donatello to see all of the values possessed by Miriam, including “a suggestive power, a magnetic influence” (Hawthorne). We see in this scene that Donatello has experienced another transformation. His awakened consciousness has provided him with some level of worth. He has moved from his solitary, animal-like existence to a place of union with mankind. Kenyon ends this scene by reminding Donatello and Miriam of the strength of their union: “The bond betwixt you, therefore, is a true one, and never-except by Heaven’s own act-should be rent asunder” (Hawthorne). The growth and maturity we see exhibited in the development of Donatello and Miriam is not witnessed in Hilda’s development. Hilda cannot deal with the emotions deluging her heart and mind after seeing the approval of Miriam with respect to Donatello’s murderous act. Whereas Kenyon has
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