YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
Essays 181 - 210
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In five pages this paper analyzes 'The Birth Mark' and compares it to other Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories including 'Young Goo...
In eleven pages this paper examines the impact of transcendentalism on the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with 'Young Go...
The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun are the source of much critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. This pap...
In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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...
In five pages a comparative analysis of these Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories focuses on character, theme, development, and how ...
for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...
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...
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...
In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...
In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...
is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
(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...
to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...
believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...