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Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...

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...

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...

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...

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

This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

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...

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

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

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

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

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

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

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

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

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

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...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

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...

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...

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

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

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...