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Home in Works by Arthur Miller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Pat Conroy

In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...

Guilt and Sin in The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 8 pages this paper discusses how guilt and sin are represented in these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are 5 sources cit...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

Letter A Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...

Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...

Sin, Redemption, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

sewn, per the magistrates instructions, is "fantastically embroidered" (54). While on the scaffolding, Hester sees her husband sta...

Fourteenth U.S. President Franklin Pierce

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

American Romantic Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper discusses the English Romantic movement and how American Romanticism is characterized the works of Nathan...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

'Young Goodman Brown' and 'Roger Malvin's Burial' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages a comparative analysis of these Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories focuses on character, theme, development, and how ...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

Literature and Analysis of Character, Theme, Symbols, and Setting

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and a Reaction to Its Good vs. Evil Theme

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

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

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Comparing the 1995 Film and Novel Versions of 'The Scarlet Letter'

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Freedom

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...

Free Will and Fate in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(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...