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Introduction "Alice Doane's Appeal"
Materials prepared by:
| Joseph R. Modugno , Department of English
North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA | |
“This company of devils and condemned souls had come on a holiday, to
revel in the discovery of a complicated crime; as foul a one as ever was imagined
in their dreadful abode. In the course of the tale, the reader had been permitted
to discover, that all the incidents were results of the machinations of the
wizard….” In “Alice Doane’s Appeal,” Hawthorne
presents a complex tale--a story within a story—that touches upon themes
of incest, fratricide, and delusion. In grappling with the past—his own,
as well as Salem’s, Hawthorne explores the dark impulses of the human
heart and presents a narrator-storyteller whose success is achieved when he
discovers that truth is more powerful than fiction.
Page citation: http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/page/11846/
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