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the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...
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...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
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...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
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...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
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...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...