Cyrus Bourne

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Cyrus Bourne is a central figure in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” whose life becomes tragically shaped by inherited guilt and an unfulfilled promise from the past.

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Roger Malvin’s Burial NERFINISHED
createdBy Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED
hasLanguage English
hasMedium prose
hasNarrativeFunction embodiment of inherited guilt
vehicle for moral allegory
hasNationalityInFiction American NERFINISHED
hasRole central figure
hasTemporalSetting post-colonial American frontier
hasThemeRelation family legacy
inherited guilt
moral responsibility
psychological burden
tragic fate
unfulfilled promise
isAffectedBy broken promise
guilt from the past
isCharacterInGenre American Romanticism NERFINISHED
Gothic fiction
isFromWorkCountry United States NERFINISHED
isPartOf Hawthorne’s early short fiction corpus
isRelatedWorkAuthor Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED

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Roger Malvin's Burial character Cyrus Bourne