Robert Danforth

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Robert Danforth is a practical, industrious blacksmith who serves as the foil to the idealistic watchmaker Owen Warland in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Artist of the Beautiful."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf blacksmith
fictional character
literary character
appearsAlongside Annie NERFINISHED
Owen Warland NERFINISHED
appearsIn The Artist of the Beautiful NERFINISHED
associatedWith craftsmanship
physical strength
characterTrait industrious
practical
contrastsWith Owen Warland NERFINISHED
createdBy Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED
familyRelation husband of Annie
firstPublishedIn The Artist of the Beautiful NERFINISHED
genreOfWork short story
hasSetting a New England town
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod American Romanticism NERFINISHED
medium short story
narrativeFunction highlights Owen Warland’s idealism by contrast
nationalityInFiction American
occupation blacksmith
publicationAuthor Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED
roleInWork foil to Owen Warland
symbolicFunction represents practical, utilitarian values
themeRelation art versus practicality
imagination versus materialism
values material productivity
useful labor

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The Artist of the Beautiful character Robert Danforth