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In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...
At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...
In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...
of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...
In seven pages this paper presents a chapter by chapter synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter....
to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...
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...
that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...
In four pages this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...
In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
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...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
In an essay consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the narrative framework develops the love and hate that are a part of male and...