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

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

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

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

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

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...