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This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
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...
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...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...
In six pages this research paper examines the tension that exists between independence and dependence as reflected in Nathaniel Ha...
In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...
upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...
In six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...
"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
In five pages a comparative analysis of these Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories focuses on character, theme, development, and how ...
a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...
In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...
In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....
In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....
This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...
In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...
A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...
play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...