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Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and 3 Critiques

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

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Comparative Analysis of Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Characters of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

Romance in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Romanticism

Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which peop...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

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

Mythology and Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...

Symbolism and Allegory in “Young Goodman Brown”

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

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

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...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

The Scarlet Letter, Portrayals of Suffering

This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...

The Individual and Society in "The Scarlet Letter"

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Comparative Analysis of Works by William James and Robert Orsi

104 degrees Fahrenheit might be a much more favorable temperature for truths to germinate and sprout in than the more ordinary blo...

Similarities and Differences Among Female Literary Characters

learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation....

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox and Cecilia by Frances Burney

In four pages this paper compares how inheritance is thematically depicted in each of these works....

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...