You will select Nathaniel Hawthorne short story “Earth’s Holocaust” that we cover this semester and discuss what insights the story offers about political life. The following questions should guide your discussion. You do not have to answer all of the questions for each story; just incorporate a few of them into your essaywhichever ones you find the most interesting. Earths Holocaust ? What is Hawthorne saying about utopian schemes like the one the fire seems to be intended to advance? ? Why is the abolition of war impracticable for any length of time together? ? What would Burke say about burning constitutions and arbitrary laws in order to leave the world as free as the first man created? ? What does the narrators companion mean when he says there is far less of good and evil in the effect of this bonfire than the world might be willing to believe? ? What have the participants forgotten to throw into the fire? ? What might the political lessons of this story be?
