The Blithedale Romance

The Woman Named Zenobia In Hawthorne's story The Blithedale Romance, we are introduced to the character Zenobia. Zenobia is a wealthy woman who considers herself to be a feminist. She is always preaching her view of the woman's role in society. She is a woman who feels and speaks very passionately about the feminist's place in the world. This all seems to change as soon as Zenobia falls in love with Hollingsworth. After Zenobia begins …

…the audience when the reader discovers that she has killed herself. Zenobia obviously was a very confused woman so that it had to come to that point. I, the reader, feel that there is something to be learned from Zenobia's story. A woman should never give up everything just for a man because in the end all we give up or lose is ourselves. Work Cited 1) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. London: Orion Publishing Group, 1964