...only been away a few hours. This was Hawthorne's moral: Amid the seeming confusion of our material world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system,...exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place for ever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. The more recent heroes...

...still larger proportions, and Hawthorne's conclusion spells it out for us with considerable clarity: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe."2 This moral, put forth with...

...That half buried rumination, "each for himself," surfaces in the last paragraph as a dichotomy: Either "individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one 114 another, and to a whole," or, "by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful...

...human nature. Thus we have " Wakefield, " and the terror-striking observation with which it closes: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place for ever. Like Wakefield he may become, as it were, the outcast of the universe." "The Rill from the...

...much food for thought, a portion of which shall lend its wisdom to moral; and be shaped into a figure. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to the whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing...

...individual "of no common fate" (137) that Wakefield no longer is. What about the irksome moral of the story? "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe" (140). One sho.uld attach no...

...she are old, and it is too late to make up the loss. The final judgment of Wakefield is very harsh: Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield. he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. All of us play roles in society....

...his subsequent fate, but lets us guess that he was already dead, in a sense. I quote the final words: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place for ever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe." In that brief and...

...mentions in Ghosts (209-10). "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world," Hawthorne writes, "individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever" (298). "Wakefield" not only suggests that abandoning the reliable quotidian systems of life may make...

...could have been taken — that the account given leaves a remainder. 3 : The Bewildered Equilibrist Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "Wakefield" Nothing in the strange world of Buster Keaton's comedy is stranger...