Fire Worship (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Fire Worship,' a notable selection from his revered collection 'Mosses from an Old Manse,' invites readers into a world suffused with allegorical meaning and rich period detail. Through a tapestry of symbolic undertones, Hawthorne critiques the industrial transformation of his time, contrasting the communal hearth of yesteryear with the isolation intrinsic to modernity's bur...