Learning Activities Related to the Persecution of Quakers in Hawthorne
Learning Activities Related to the Persecution of Quakers in Hawthorne
George Fox, Quaker from England(courtesy of Dr. John L. Idol, Jr.)
1. Students interested in the creative process in general and, more specifically
in how Hawthorne employed and transformed historical and familial information
to compose the literature he wrote might be interested in re-reading the description
of the circumstances that gave rise to old Matthew Maule's curse
upon the Pyncheon family , reading the excerpt from the biography of Thomas
Maule , and visiting the Maule Genealogy Website
. Look also at the introduction to Young
Goodman Brown . Then compose and essay in which you speculate on how Hawthorne's
mind might have worked to combine these ingredients so that he was able to imagine
old Matthew Maule of The House of the Seven Gables and/or consider what
elements in your own history and family and present day surroundings might be
forged into an engaging tale.
