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woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

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...

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...

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

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

much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...

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

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...

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...

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

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

This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

"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...

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...

he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...

of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...

of enduring the terrifying experience of being set apart from it. Ironically, Hesters partner is sin is also present at the scaffo...

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 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...

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...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...