Reading The Marble Faun | Alexandria
Read The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Probing innocence and guilt, Hawthorne's unsettling masterpiece confronts how art both elevates and corrupts the soul. Through a haunting tale of murder in Rome, The Marble Faun reveals the paradox that moral growth requires sin - challenging the notion that virtue comes from purity alone. A shocking premise that still jolts: perhaps we need darkness to reach the light.