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fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

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

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

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

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...

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...

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

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

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...

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

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 examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...

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 this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...

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 this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...