Essays 181 - 210
does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...
legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
In 6 pages the theme of scientific experimentation as it is represented in both of these short stories are analyzed. There are 6 ...
conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...
Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...
came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
In five pages this paper examines the presentation of the theme of guilt in a consideration of the short stories 'My Kinsman, Majo...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...
In three pages this essay analyzes the example set by Hester Prynne in a consideration of alienation and Puritan social expectatio...