YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays 181 - 210
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
In five pages this essay analyzes the Puritan's artistic legacy in America as considered by art critic Robert Hughes. There are n...
him apart from other artisans; his extreme sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual...
"We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of England, Fr...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...
and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...
religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...
the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...
legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...
In seven pages The Scarlet Letter is analyzed in terms of the author's uses of social, mental, and physical isolation. Four other...
In six pages the oppression that existed in Puritan society is the focus of this analysis of The Scarlet Letter. There are six so...
In five pages this paper analyzes the novel in terms of Hawthorne's use of Romanticism. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this report examines Hawthorne's style of using comparison and dichotomy as it relates to characterizations and scen...
In three pages this essay analyzes the example set by Hester Prynne in a consideration of alienation and Puritan social expectatio...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...
the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
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...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...