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would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

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...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

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 ...

(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...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

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...

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...

55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

In four pages On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson are ...

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 the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

In 8 pages this paper discusses how guilt and sin are represented in these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are 5 sources cit...

In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...