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

This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

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

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

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...

to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...

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

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

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...

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

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

The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun are the source of much critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. This pap...

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

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...

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

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

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...

In six pages this research paper examines the tension that exists between independence and dependence as reflected in Nathaniel Ha...