Alex+Artist+of+teh+Beautiful

Alex Dalzell The Artist of the beautiful Add first line  1. ``Where did you get that idea, Annie?'' said Owen, starting in surprise. 2. ``Oh, out of my own head,'' answered she, ``and from something that I heard you say, long 3. ago, when you were but a boy and I a little child. But come, will you mend this poor thimble 4. of mine?''  5. ``Anything for your sake, Annie,'' said Owen Warland, -- ``anything, even were it to     6. work at Robert Danforth's forge.''  7. ``And that would be a pretty sight!'' retorted Annie, glancing with imperceptible  8. slightness at the artist's small and slender frame. ``Well; here is the thimble.''  9. ``But that is a strange idea of yours, said Owen, ``about the spiritualization of matter.  10. And then the thought stole into his mind that this young girl possessed the gift to comprehend  11. him better than all the world besides. And what a help and strength would it be to him in his  12. lonely toil if he could gain the sympathy of the only being whom he loved! To persons whose  13. pursuits are insulated from the common business of life -- who are either in advance of     14. mankind or apart from it -- there often comes a sensation of moral cold that makes the spirit  15. shiver as if it had reached the frozen solitudes around the pole. What the prophet, the poet,  16. the reformer, the criminal, or any other man with human yearnings, but separated from the  17. multitude by a peculiar lot, might feel, poor Owen felt.  18. ``Annie,'' cried he, growing pale as death at the thought, ``how gladly would I tell you the  19. secret of my pursuit! You, methinks, would estimate it rightly. You, I know, would hear it   <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">  20. with a reverence that I must not expect from the harsh, material world.'' <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 21. ``Would I not? to be sure I would!'' replied Annie Hovenden, lightly laughing. ``Come; <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 22. explain to me quickly what is the meaning of this little whirligig, so delicately wrought that it   <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">  23. might be a plaything for Queen Mab. See! I will put it in motion.'' <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 24. ``Hold! exclaimed Owen, ``hold! <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 25. Annie had but given the slightest possible touch, with the point of a needle, to the same <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 26. minute portion of complicated machinery which has been more than once mentioned, when <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 27. the artist seized her by the wrist with a force that made her scream aloud. She was affrighted <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 28. at the convulsion of intense rage and anguish that writhed across his features. The next <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 29. instant he let his head sink upon his hands. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 30. ``Go, Annie,'' murmured he; ``I have deceived myself, and must suffer for it. I yearned for <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 31. sympathy, and thought, and fancied, and dreamed that you might give it me; but you lack the <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 32. talisman, Annie, that should admit you into my secrets. That touch has undone the toil of   <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">  33. months and the thought of a lifetime! It was not your fault, Annie; but you have ruined me!'' <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 34. Poor Owen Warland! He had indeed erred, yet pardonably; for if any human spirit could have <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 35. sufficiently reverenced the processes so sacred in his eyes, it must have been a woman's.   <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">  36. Even Annie Hovenden, possibly might not have disappointed him had she been enlightened <span style="line-height: 11.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 37. by the deep intelligence of love. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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 Allegory 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. Hawthorne is not a puritan or a **Transcendentalist** he is between. **Transcendentalism** is a term associated with a group of new ideas in literature and philosophy that emerged in [|New England] in the early-to-middle 19th century. The movement developed in the 1830s and 40s as a protest against the general state of culture and [|society]. Among transcendentalists' core beliefs was the belief in an ideal [|spiritual] state that "transcends" the [|physical] and [|empirical] and is realized only through the individual's [|intuition], rather than through the [|doctrines] of established religions. – Wikipedia <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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 <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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** <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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. He knows he can do it and does not care if others think otherwise <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · ** 5. Figurative language. ** <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 30pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; text-indent: -30pt;"> · lines 5 and 6.. 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. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 95.75pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"> 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 <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 30pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; text-indent: -30pt;"> · “15-17.” 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 any 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. · 21 -22 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, she sees it as minor amusement. 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. · 34 -35.   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 <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · ** 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. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · ** World-view. **  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. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Narrator 3rd omniscient, who cares for Owen somewhat. Proof “Poor Owen Warland! He” <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-line-height-alt: 11.55pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · 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!' Owen now knows he must work alone and follow his Owen path. The outside world will hurt his path. 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. line 3 “you were but a boy and I a little child” = remind of how long they have know each other line 20 “I must not expect from the harsh, material world.'' Owen fears the material world, it is his kryptonite. Line 18 ” cried he, growing pale as death at the thought,” foreshadows that Owen telling Annie will not go well for him