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Essays 121 - 150
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...
(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...
believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...
repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...
the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...
culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...
and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...
55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...
In 8 pages this paper discusses how guilt and sin are represented in these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are 5 sources cit...
In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...
In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...
In eight pages Margaret Fuller's writings are among the topics considered in this analysis of how 19th century feminism was influe...
In four pages On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson are ...