YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Some Moral Minima by Lenn Goodman
Essays 61 - 90
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
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...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
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...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...
In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...
In a paper consisting of six pages these character driven short stories Updike's 'A and P,' Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' and...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...
In eleven pages this paper examines the impact of transcendentalism on the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with 'Young Go...