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him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...

In six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...

upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...

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...

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...