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"Ethan Brand" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a man seeking the "unpardonable sin." It was first published in 1850. The unpardonable sin is never clearly revealed. However he gestures at his heart and proudly exclaims that the unpardonable sin is only in his heart when asked to show the unpardonable sin. This can be interpreted that the unpardonable sin is ceasing to see one's fellow man as a human. Brand ceases to see himself as part of the human race and therefore hardens his heart to his "experiments."
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It is often believed that the main character in "Ethan Brand" was inspired by Herman Melville, though the story was written before Hawthorne and Melville had met.[1]
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Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- ^ Cheevers, Susan (2006). American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work. Detroit: Thorndike Press. Large print edition. p. 198. ISBN 078629521X.
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