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of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...
In five pages this paper examines how this short story features the author's powerful use of symbolism. Five sources are cited in...
In four pages this paper examines the importance of symbolism in this novel with the emphasis being upon the 'scarlet letter A' re...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...
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...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
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...
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 ...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
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...
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...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
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 five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...