mesmerism and hawthorne
Mesmerism and the Patterns Witnessed throughout Hawthorne's works Nathaniel Hawthornes short stories and novels are laden with Mesmeristic Imagery. He incorporates Mesmerism to add an element of the supernatural to his works. Also, Mesmerism depicts a power struggle between a man and a woman. The man acts as Mesmerizer and knowingly takes advantage of the woman for deceitful purposes. Mesmerism and its root, animal magnetism, are incorporated throughout Hawthornes short stories and novels. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), an Austrian physicist, was a pioneer in the practice of Hypnotism. His theory began as animal magnetism. Mesmer believed a mysterious fluid penetrates all bodies. This fluid allows one person to have a powerful magnetic influence over another. His sessions of seances, in which he magnetized patients, created an initial sensation but soon the medical profession considered him a fraud. His theories of animal magnetism have been discarded , but hypnotism has been accepted as a subject for scientific study as well as a means of treating certain disorders (World Book 421). Mesmer was not the first to use magnets to heal wounds. In all ages and all countries there have been people who have claimed to
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Approximate Word count = 1269
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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