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In five pages this paper considers how 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne epitomizes the principles of Romanticism. Three sou...

In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...

In five pages this essay discusses the spiritual meaning of the allegories featured in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorn...

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

In nine pages this paper examines how the protagonist is transformed throughout this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Seven so...

In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...

from New England Transcendentalism with the more radical social reforms of the time" (Massachusetts, brook_farm.html). At Brook Fa...

In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

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

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

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

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

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 ...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

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

(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 ...

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

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

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...