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Alex and shuchun The Artist of the beautiful passage 1 ``Anything for your sake, Annie, said Owen Warland, -- ``anything, even were it to work at Robert Danforth's forge. ``And that would be a pretty sight!'' retorted Annie, glancing with imperceptible slightness at the artist's small and slender frame. ``Well; here is the thimble.'' ``But that is a strange idea of yours, said Owen, ``about the spiritualization of matter. And then the thought stole into his mind that this young girl possessed the gift to comprehend him better than all the world besides. And what a help and strength would it be to him in his lonely toil if he could gain the sympathy of the only being whom he loved! To persons whose pursuits are insulated from the common business of life -- who are either in advance of mankind or apart from it -- there often comes a sensation of moral cold that makes the spirit shiver as if it had reached the frozen solitudes around the pole. What the prophet, the poet, the reformer, the criminal, or any other man with human yearnings, but separated from the multitude by a peculiar lot, might feel, poor Owen felt. ``Annie,'' cried he, growing pale as death at the thought, ``how gladly would I tell you the secret of my pursuit! You, methinks, would estimate it rightly. You, I know, would hear it with a reverence that I must not expect from the harsh, material world.'' ``Would I not? to be sure I would!'' replied Annie Hovenden, lightly laughing. ``Come; explain to me quickly what is the meaning of this little whirligig, so delicately wrought that it might be a plaything for Queen Mab. See! I will put it in motion.'' ``Hold! exclaimed Owen, ``hold! Annie had but given the slightest possible touch, with the point of a needle, to the same minute portion of complicated machinery which has been more than once mentioned, when the artist seized her by the wrist with a force that made her scream aloud. She was affrighted at the convulsion of intense rage and anguish that writhed across his features. The next instant he let his head sink upon his hands. ``Go, Annie,'' murmured he; ``I have deceived myself, and must suffer for it. I yearned for sympathy, and thought, and fancied, and dreamed that you might give it me; but you lack the talisman, Annie, that should admit you into my secrets. That touch has undone the toil of months and the thought of a lifetime! It was not your fault, Annie; but you have ruined me!'' Poor Owen Warland! He had indeed erred, yet pardonably; for if any human spirit could have sufficiently reverenced the processes so sacred in his eyes, it must have been a woman's. Even Annie Hovenden, possibly might not have disappointed him had she been enlightened by the deep intelligence of love. Background **Author:** Nathaniel Hawthorne **First Published:** 1844 **Type of Plot:** Allegory **Time of Work:** About 1840 **Setting:** New England **Principal Characters:** Owen Warland, Peter Hovenden, Annie Hovenden, Robert Danforth **Genres:** Short fiction, Allegory Alloegory because ¨Most characters, settings and events stand for ideas and/or qualities beyond themselves. ¨Purpose of an allegory is to teach a moral lesson. Moral lesson is hard work and persistence will be rewarded. Plot Owen Warland is a clockmaker who has spent his life in the pursuit of the things he sees as beautiful in spirit and in essence not in form or function. The master whom he was apprenticed has grown old and Owen now and given Owen his shop. The master is disapproving of Owen because Owen cares about eh beautiful in spirit and not in form or function. Owen is in love with the Masters daughter Anne. Owen is trying to create a beautiful machine that is alive throughout the story. In the end, He does not marry anne because he sees he must give up connections with all people in order to achieve transcendent state. He creates the beautiful and it dies but that is ok with Owen because in creating the beautiful he had achieved his dream and this export the summery is: Anne who has come to his shop to have her thimble repaired. Owen loves her and wonders whether she might be a worthy partner for him. She provides the answer by touching Owen's delicate device, thus ruining it. Enraged and disappointed, Owen sends her away and resigns himself to a winter of dissipation. Characters in this exert: **Owen Warland**: An artist who embodies this quest for the self through the creation of his work of art, exploring the Transcendentalist experience of beauty as a way of resisting the materialistic and utilitarian New England society in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Owen rejects the practical: He has no interest in using his talents to regulate machinery, and the sight of a steam engine, that most useful of devices, makes him physically ill. His concern is with the spirit, chiefly his own. **traits of human nature he represents: Spirit** **Annie Hovenden**: Daughter of Owens master, she is kind to Owen. Owen loves her at this point in the story. She has come to have Owen repair something. **traits of human nature he represents: Bridge between spirit and physical** Meaning of story: It is the accomplishment that matters, not what happens to it. Transcendental Owen makes his dream, but his dream dies,. The moral is it does not matter if it dies, because the ability has been proven to get there. Meaning of Exert. based on passage, do not jump to conclusions. Owen assumed that Annie would understand him and his work because he loved her, he had not factual basis for this conclusion. He wanted her to understand. Because he jumped without looking at all the option and possibilities his dreams temperately broke. ** 5. Figurative language. **  · ``Anything for your sake, Annie, said Owen Warland, -- ``anything, even were it to work at Robert Danforth's forge.. This line is significant in the character building of Owen. When Owen states "Anything for your sake, Annie", it shows that he has strong emotional feeling for annie. He loves her, and wants to make her happy. Can also be seen as he wishes she will make him happy, and be a person who finally understands him. O This is emphasized by the line ``anything, even were it to work at Robert Danforth's forge.'' This is very important to the story line. As Owen is a man of spirit and impracticability, there is nothing worse for him then being in a place of strength and practicality like the forge. Owen is saying he would experience his worst fear for Annie, showing his love for her · “What the prophet, the poet, the reformer, the criminal, or any other man with human yearnings, but separated from the multitude by a peculiar lot, might feel, poor Owen felt.” This is important in the character development of Owen. The list of people, " prophet, the poet, the reformer, the criminal" shows that what any human in the world would feel at at time in love, Owen felt. More importantly, the addition of the line "but separated from the multitude by a peculiar lot" points out that Owen is not like any of these people. He is not like any other person. He is not a person of this world like the other are. The criminal wants worldly possessions or feelings, the poet wants to spread worldly beauty and comment on it, and the prophet wants to help his fellow man reach a spiritual level. Owen does not want this. Owen wants to create a spiritual thing, he has not other want or desire, he does not want to help his fellow man, and he does not want to write on the beauty of worldly things. · " Would I not? to be sure I would!'' replied Annie Hovenden, lightly laughing. ``Come; explain to me quickly what is the meaning of this little whirligig" Character building = Annie character is shown here. When Own is ready to spill his soul to Owen, She answered lightly, as thought it was nothing with Would I not? to be sure I would, shown by her lightly laughing. This shows that she does not understand Owen and his obsession with the beautiful. In addition this is a foreshadow that she will not understand Owen and thus she breaks his butterfly. This shows that Owen is not understood by the girl he love. · for if any human spirit could have sufficiently reverenced the processes so sacred in his eyes, it must have been a woman's.   the word reverence means awe, astonishment, appreciation. This means that only a women could have understood Owen's obsession. Therefore, as the women who understands Owen best did not understand him, no one is likely too. This explains why Owen is so disappointed and distraught. here, this is the relation that Owen must be alone forever with his work. No one will understand him. Now Owen knows this and will act as such for the remainder of the story. Even Annie Hovenden, possibly might not have disappointed him had she been enlightened by the deep intelligence of love ** 6. Representation of reality. **  Does not represent real world Uses character to illustrate theme Owen = transcendental Robert = tradition way of life / puritan Clash between tradition way of life and the people who are transcendental. Owen’s transcendent traits are emphasized more than normal. This exaggeration shows the traits much clearer, contrasting with the other characters. ** 6. World-view. **  puritans vs transcendentalism are represented Version 1 = puritan life made look better, Robert has a job, wife and kid at the end, while Owen has a dream that was completed and then died Version 2 = based on passage, do not jump to conclusions. Owen assumed that Annie would understand him and his work because he loved her, he had not factual basis for this conclusion. He wanted her to understand. Because he jumped without looking at all the option and possibilities his dreams temperately broke. Narrator = 3rd omniscient, who cares for owen somewhat. Proof “Poor Owen Warland! He” Importance to plot: This is one of the times Owen learns that stimulus destroys his creation. In this story his creation is broken multiple times. This experience of Annie breaking it moves the plot forward to show his complete devastation that he feels and acts in the next stages of the plot. “It was not your fault, Annie; but you have ruined me!' This excerpt is also important to the plot because it shows why Annie is no longer sought after by Owen. This explains to the reader why Owen is now content to be on his own. Next passage But the innate tendency of his soul had only been accumulating fresh vigor during its apparent sluggishness. As the summer advanced he almost totally relinquished his business, and permitted Father Time, so far as the old gentleman was represented by the clocks and watches under his control, to stray at random through human life, making infinite confusion among the train of bewildered hours. He wasted the sunshine, as people said, in wandering through the woods and fields and along the banks of streams. There, like a child, he found amusement in chasing butterflies or watching the motions of water insects. There was something truly mysterious in the intentness with which he contemplated these living playthings as they sported on the breeze or examined the structure of an imperial insect whom he had imprisoned. The chase of butterflies was an apt emblem of the ideal pursuit in which he had spent so many golden hours; but would the beautiful idea ever be yielded to his hand like the butterfly that symbolized it? Sweet, doubtless, were these days, and congenial to the artist's soul. They were full of bright conceptions, which gleamed through his intellectual world as the butterflies gleamed through the outward atmosphere, and were real to him, for the instant, without the toil, and perplexity, and many disappointments of attempting to make them visible to the sensual eye. Alas that the artist, whether in poetry, or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp. Owen Warland felt the impulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty, imperfectly copied from the richness of their visions. The night was now his time for the slow progress of re-creating the one idea to which all his intellectual activity referred itself. Always at the approach of dusk he stole into the town, locked himself within his shop, and wrought with patient delicacy of touch for many hours. Sometimes he was startled by the rap of the watchman, who, when all the world should be asleep, had caught the gleam of lamplight through the crevices of Owen Warland's shutters. Daylight, to the morbid sensibility of his mind, seemed to have an intrusiveness that interfered with his pursuits. On cloudy and inclement days, therefore, he sat with his head upon his hands, muffling, as it were, his sensitive brain in a mist of indefinite musings, for it was a relief to escape from the sharp distinctness with which he was compelled to shape out his thoughts during his nightly toil. Background **Author:** Nathaniel Hawthorne **First Published:** 1844 **Type of Plot:** Allegory **Time of Work:** About 1840 **Setting:** New England **Principal Characters:** Owen Warland, Peter Hovenden, Annie Hovenden, Robert Danforth **Genres:** Short fiction, Allegory Alloegory because ¨Most characters, settings and events stand for ideas and/or qualities beyond themselves. ¨Purpose of an allegory is to teach a moral lesson. Moral lesson is hard work and persistence will be rewarded. Plot Owen Warland is a clockmaker who has spent his life in the pursuit of the things he sees as beautiful in spirit and in essence not in form or function. The master whom he was apprenticed has grown old and Owen now and given Owen his shop. The master is disapproving of Owen because Owen cares about eh beautiful in spirit and not in form or function. Owen is in love with the Masters daughter Anne. Owen is trying to create a beautiful machine that is alive throughout the story. In the end, He does not marry anne because he sees he must give up connections with all people in order to achieve transcendent state. He creates the beautiful and it dies but that is ok with Owen because in creating the beautiful he had achieved his dream Summery of Passage passage explains Owen's love of beautiful things and the essece of life not the form of it. It tells how Owen spent his summer not on clock making, but "chasing butterflies or watching the motions of water insects". Then it tells of how Owen spent his night's "re-creating the one idea to which all his intellectual activity referred itself". The instensity of his work at nights is shown by his being "startled by the rap of the watchman". Argument of this excert : Argument : Owen Warland is a Transcendentalist. He has a quest to transcend the physical and empirical world and achieve a creation of beautify. He is searching for his original relation with the universe. Although all people can be transcendent, artists are most connected with their search for the the giving form to new beatifies in nature. Owen “permitted Father Time, so far as the old gentleman was represented by the clocks and watches under his control, to stray at random through human life, making infinite confusion among the train of bewildered hours”. This action is that of a transcendent, who believed that clocks and keeping time was a way to be separated from nature and the beauty of life. They believed that clocks contrasted with natures times and made. Therefore, father time is a metaphor of the machines that distances a man from nature and stops man from following the spirit of nature and its own time. Owen also felt “Owen Warland felt the impulse to give external reality to his ideas”. This shows his feelings that the matter of something, the soul the purpose that he feels must be realized. A Transcendentalist would not want to imitate but make their own creations in the world based on their ideas and compelling feelings. Characters in this excert: **Owen Warland**:An artist who embodies this quest for the self through the creation of his work of art, exploring the Transcendentalist experience of beauty as a way of resisting the materialistic and utilitarian New England society in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Owen rejects the practical: He has no interest in using his talents to regulate machinery, and the sight of a steam engine, that most useful of devices, makes him physically ill. His concern is with the spirit, chiefly his own. **traits of human nature he represents: Spirit** Importance to plot This export develops the character of Owen. Does impractacle things in the pursuit of his soul's desire - the beautiful works of nature and learning how to recreate them in his own way  · "There, like a child, he found amusement in chasing butterflies or watching the motions of water insects". This foreshadows Owens love for beautiful things and his creation of the beautiful  · He is hard working  o "was something truly mysterious in the intentness with which he contemplated these living playthings as they sported on the breeze or examined the structure of an imperial insect whom he had imprisoned" The use of the word intense show that Owen was very contemplative and thoughtful in what he was doing. He put forth effort. Foreshadows building of butterfly  o "and wrought with patient delicacy of touch for many hours"  · Does not do practice things  o night working of beautiful days watching animals, not any work at his job.  o Spends all his time doing things for his soul, none for his job or the materialsit world with which he resides in. ** 5. Figurative language. **  "Father Time, so far as the old gentleman was represented by the clocks and watches under his control, to stray at random through human life, making infinite confusion among the train of bewildered hours." The meaning of the train of bewildered hours shows that Owens summer all ran together. It was on a squedual like a train. He did things at the same time each day, one running into the other. Father time alludes to Owens work with clocks that he was ignoring. This may mean Owen did work some on clocks and this interfered with his passion, but i don't know. "He wasted the sunshine, as people said, " This shows that the people who live around Owen did not think he was spending his time right. The did not understand the transcendentalist or that he was actually studying what he desired to make. Owen learns through this story that the people's views must be ignored and he must fully surrender himself to nature in order to achieve his creation. This is one of the many references in this story to the puritan view that the transcendentalists wasted time and energy in pursuits they saw as futile. “The chase of butterflies was an apt emblem of the ideal pursuit in which he had spent so many golden hours” = it is made clear by the narrator that Owen enjoyed spending his time chasing butterflies and watching animals. Owen loved this pursuit of his soul's desires. Through his happiness, the transcendentalist view is shown that pursuing one's soul and nature's drive will bring peace adn happiness, although many trails will be necessary to get there. Words “[sweet]” “gleamed” ‘bright” world view "Alas that the artist, whether in poetry, or whatever other material, may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp" World view: All artists, no matter how beautiful their work, all fall short of the beauty of their vision. This is saying that human hands cannot make the beauty that they see in the world or in their minds. Artist "must chase the flitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp", This means that artists try and create their art, but in doing so only produce a portion of what they really wanted to make. They kill their vision by making a less perfect imitation of what they wanted to make. Poor Owen also fight with this problem throughout the story, but eventually overcomes it. ** Representation of reality ** The passage doesn't represent reality, the setting is in 1800's and during that time people don't usually works at night. The artist is more devoted to art and beauty then normal artist to the level where he give up everything in search for nature or in another word beauty. This presents a very idealistic belief because first he wouldn't be able to support himself due to the lack of money and other needs.