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A 5 page paper which
examines various themes in Hawthorne’s short story “The Wedding Knell.” No
additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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reader stop and examine the numerous themes within. It is not a story that one can merely brush aside as having been read, but rather is a story that invites
and almost insists on some sort of explicating. In essence, Hawthornes story does not merely allow us the luxury of enjoyment, but insists that we look closer. Bearing that in
mind the following paper examines "The Wedding Knell" and discusses the various themes that seem evident in the short story. The Wedding Knell In the very beginning of
Hawthornes tale we gain the understanding that something is perhaps wrong as it relates to the marriage of the two older individuals. There is a feeling that disaster exists or
that the two people are perhaps testing fate and trying too hard to make a marriage at such an old age. This feeling comes to us initially through the descriptions
of the two people. We note that Mr.. Ellenwood was a man who had been celibate for forty years and also "At sixty-five....a shy, but not quite a secluded man;
selfish, like all men who brood over their own hearts, yet manifesting on rare occasions a vein of generous sentiment; a scholar throughout life, though always an indolent one, because
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delicate, yet sometimes requiring a considerable relaxation, in his behalf, of
the common rules of society" (Hawthorne NA). He was, in many ways, nothing short of a man with no vision, no purpose, and no true accomplishments to the point that
some thought him possibly mad. But, we note that "If he were mad, it was the consequence, and not the cause, of an aimless and abortive life" (Hawthorne NA).
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