Essays 31 - 60
In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. acceptance of religion and how God is reflected in such literary works as Typee, Black...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...
In five pages this paper examines interpersonal communication within the contexts of protagonists Bigger Thomas in Native Son and ...
In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...
This five page paper addresses the themes of conflict and emotion experienced by Hawthorne's characters in The Scarlet Letter. The...
In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...
"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...
In an essay consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the narrative framework develops the love and hate that are a part of male and...
its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
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...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
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...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...
This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...
Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...