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the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
managing director of Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceutical Limited in the United Kingdom in 1986; in 2001 he unofficially took over daily ope...
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 ...
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...
swearing-in as Vice President" (MrLincolnWhiteHouse.org). In truth, this does not appear to be the actions or thoughts of a man wh...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
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...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
"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...
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 research paper examines the tension that exists between independence and dependence as reflected in Nathaniel Ha...
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 six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...
upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...
"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...
In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...
In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...
The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
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...
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...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...