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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us with two groups of people, both of whom came to the New World to escape persecution for their beliefs. However, he also shows that even here one group will just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time, he doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black-or-white as they might want to present it themselves.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us with two groups of people, both of whom came to the New World to escape persecution for their beliefs. However, he also shows that even here one group will can just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time, he doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black-or-white as they might want to present it themselves.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us that both groups of people are themselves persecuted for their beliefs and that was the reason for them coming to the New World. However he also shows that even here one will just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black or white as they might want to present it themselves.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us that both with two groups of people are themselves persecuted for their beliefs and that was the reason for them coming people, both of whom came to the New World. However World to escape persecution for their beliefs. However, he also shows that even here one group will just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time time, he doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black or white black-or-white as they might want to present it themselves.
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"The Maypole of Merry Mount" is a short story written by by Creator/NathanielHawthorne in 1832. An effort of Hawthorne's HistoricalFiction that dramatized what was at least partially true of the conflicts of the Merrymount settlement in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
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"The Maypole of Merry Mount" is a short story written by by Creator/NathanielHawthorne in 1832. 1832 and included in his ''Twice-Told Tales'' collection. An effort of Hawthorne's HistoricalFiction that dramatized what was at least partially true of the conflicts of the [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies Merrymount settlement settlement]] in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
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''The Maypole of Merry Mount'' is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1832. An effort of Hawthorne's HistoricalFiction that dramatized what was at least partially true of the conflicts of the Merrymount settlement in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
The people of Merrymount are celebrating a marriage of a young male and female around the ceremonial maypole. Then John Endecott and his puritan separatists show up and well those heathen practices just aren't in-line with their views.
The people of Merrymount are celebrating a marriage of a young male and female around the ceremonial maypole. Then John Endecott and his puritan separatists show up and well those heathen practices just aren't in-line with their views.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There most certainly were people who practiced what would be considered pagan practices in this colony back then. There most certainly were puritan separatists who persecuted them because of it in this colony back then. But the story itself more than likely was not how it actually went down.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There most certainly were people who practiced what would be considered pagan practices in this colony back then. There most certainly were puritan separatists who persecuted them because of it in this colony back then. But the story itself more than likely was not how it actually went down.down.
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* UnrealiableNarrator: As mentioned above he misses the entire confrontation.
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* UnrealiableNarrator: UnreliableNarrator: As mentioned above he misses the entire confrontation.
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As I continue my effort to increase the site's literary diversity of pages, I'm staring with a Hawthorne story page. He's terribly under represented here so far. So here's a page for the Maypole of Merry Mount.
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The Maypole of Merry Mount is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1832. An effort of Hawthorne's HistoricalFiction that dramatized what was at least partially true of the conflicts of the Merrymount settlement in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
The people of Merrymount are celebrating a marriage of a young male and female around the ceremonial maypole. Then John Endecott and his puritan separatists show up and well those heathen practices just aren't in-line with their views.
!! Tropes in this short story:
* BearsAreBadNews: Averted, the dancing bear is apparently wholly tamed and peaceful. Endecott assumes this means witchcraft is afoot and orders the bear shot in the head.
* BittersweetEnding: The pagans are forced to join the puritans and abandon such frivolity of the maypole but the youths may not actually see that as a bad thing in the long run.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us that both groups of people are themselves persecuted for their beliefs and that was the reason for them coming to the New World. However he also shows that even here one will just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black or white as they might want to present it themselves.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Mr. John Endecott leaps out of actual history to bring some sanity to those heathens.
* LemonyNarrator: Oh so much. Our narrator actually misses the entire confrontation because he is too busy telling us about the past. When he decides to return to the actions the puritans have already won.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: This being a Hawthorne story, the narrator makes mention that the pagans do look like supernatural creatures in metaphors but doesn't seem to be that out of the normal, except the rather unrealistically tame dancing bear.
* UnrealiableNarrator: As mentioned above he misses the entire confrontation.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There most certainly were people who practiced what would be considered pagan practices in this colony back then. There most certainly were puritan separatists who persecuted them because of it in this colony back then. But the story itself more than likely was not how it actually went down.
The people of Merrymount are celebrating a marriage of a young male and female around the ceremonial maypole. Then John Endecott and his puritan separatists show up and well those heathen practices just aren't in-line with their views.
!! Tropes in this short story:
* BearsAreBadNews: Averted, the dancing bear is apparently wholly tamed and peaceful. Endecott assumes this means witchcraft is afoot and orders the bear shot in the head.
* BittersweetEnding: The pagans are forced to join the puritans and abandon such frivolity of the maypole but the youths may not actually see that as a bad thing in the long run.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Hawthorne presents us that both groups of people are themselves persecuted for their beliefs and that was the reason for them coming to the New World. However he also shows that even here one will just as easily persecute one another. But at the same time doesn't really let either side present the situation as wholly black or white as they might want to present it themselves.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Mr. John Endecott leaps out of actual history to bring some sanity to those heathens.
* LemonyNarrator: Oh so much. Our narrator actually misses the entire confrontation because he is too busy telling us about the past. When he decides to return to the actions the puritans have already won.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: This being a Hawthorne story, the narrator makes mention that the pagans do look like supernatural creatures in metaphors but doesn't seem to be that out of the normal, except the rather unrealistically tame dancing bear.
* UnrealiableNarrator: As mentioned above he misses the entire confrontation.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There most certainly were people who practiced what would be considered pagan practices in this colony back then. There most certainly were puritan separatists who persecuted them because of it in this colony back then. But the story itself more than likely was not how it actually went down.
