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

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

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

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

to isolate themselves in worlds of their own construction. The characters of Bartleby and the lawyer both possess their own brand...

(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...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me,...

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

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

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

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

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

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

In five pages this paper examines the strange behavior exhibited by Bartleby throughout the course of Melville's story. There are...

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

In eleven pages this paper examines the impact of transcendentalism on the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with 'Young Go...

This paper analyzes two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minister's Black Veil. This five page ...