Essays 31 - 60
p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...
tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...
he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...
of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...
of enduring the terrifying experience of being set apart from it. Ironically, Hesters partner is sin is also present at the scaffo...
This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...
This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
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...
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 six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...
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...
find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...
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...
"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
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...
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...
In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...
In eight pages Margaret Fuller's writings are among the topics considered in this analysis of how 19th century feminism was influe...
In seven pages The Scarlet Letter is analyzed in terms of the author's uses of social, mental, and physical isolation. Four other...
In six pages the oppression that existed in Puritan society is the focus of this analysis of The Scarlet Letter. There are six so...
In five pages this report examines Hawthorne's style of using comparison and dichotomy as it relates to characterizations and scen...