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Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

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

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

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...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

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...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

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...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

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

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

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...

from New England Transcendentalism with the more radical social reforms of the time" (Massachusetts, brook_farm.html). At Brook Fa...

In five pages this paper argues that the fictional female character Hester Prynne was 'more of a man' than were either her creator...

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

In eight pages this paper discusses the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne in an analysis of his various literary techniques...

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

In five pages this paper considers how 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne epitomizes the principles of Romanticism. Three sou...

In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...