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ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

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 Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

(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...

to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...

Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

"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...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

something like "I found one of the most impressive images that Melville used was to say that Ahab looked like he had been cast in ...

In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...