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Nathaniel Hauthorn. Lady Eleanor's Mantel

1. What is the function of the frame? Compare the style of the frame with that of the story itself.
2. State the genre of this work. What features of the text are subdued to the genre laws, which of them are introduced by the author?
3. Define the style of the book. Find the "adornments" of the narrator's fancy.
4. What personages are depicted most vividly and why?
5. How is Lady Eleanor named and described?
6. What symbols are used in the text? What is their function?
7. Find the culminating point of the story and analyse it.
8. How is the disease called? Why is there "no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing"?
9. Who survives and why? Why is not Lady Eleanor's death described?
10. Compare Irving's and Hauthorn's tales.

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