MULTIPLICITY OF POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS AS A CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF N. HAWTHORNE’S LITERARY WORKS
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The topicality of N. Hawthorne’s literary works for scientific research and contemporary society in general is substantiated. The author accentuates the main questions reflected in writer’s literary works such as interest to the inner world of a human, moral choice problem, questions of conscience, sin, fault, atonement. N. Hawthorne’s characteristic narrative strategy, “device of multiple choice”, is treated in the article, taking “The Minister’s Black Veil” as an example. Due to this startegy the author evaded definitive moral judgements, motivated readers to think and gave them a chance to find the truth. In conclusion it is stated that a number of literary works of N. Hawthorne cannot be interpreted with the help of only one method because the text is much richer than any of its individual realizations.
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