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Evil is examined as it is thematically represented in two famous Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories in a paper consisting of 6 page...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

at this simple, and brief examination, and bring into play the moral resources discussed by Jonathan Glover in "All About Evil." I...

much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of the author and also provides a brief analysis of his popular literary ...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...