“Intimate Equality”

In Pierre Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary , “system” is equated with the organizing principles of thought that define a society and is a term that has a somewhat negative connotation. In The Writing of History , Certeau explains that Jean-Francois Delamare saw in Bayle’s use of the term some disparagement, for “in religion everything is system.” 1 The term system appears several times in Hawthorne’s fiction, frequently to describe an ideology closely linked to a set of cultural practices, religious or moral, sometimes in an ironic voice, often in the context of failure. The system usually seems curiously distant from the individuals who inhabit it, as if institutionalized by some force beyond their control, perhaps the “iron men” in authority (1: 197). Hawthorne consistently relies on the metaphor of iron in his novels to characterize the system. Implacable and unyielding, the system rarely works in the individual’s favor, and it is more likely to bend him or her to its unalterable purposes. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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