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In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

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

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

of this, decides to hire him on the spot (Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener). Essentially, he figures that if he looks well...

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

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 ...

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

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

In seven pages the consequences of free will are examined within the context of Melville's story. There are no other sources cite...

In five pages Billy Budd's transcendental nature is examined in terms of the protagonist's exemplification of peacemaking, honesty...

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

In five pages Hemingway's Harold Krebs is compared with Melville's story narrator in an argument that asserts that confrontation f...

In six pages this research paper examines the tension that exists between independence and dependence as reflected in Nathaniel Ha...

In six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...

In 5 pages a comparative analysis of these American literary works examines their similarities and differences. There are 2 sourc...

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

The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun are the source of much critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. This pap...

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

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...

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...

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

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

religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...

the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...

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...

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