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This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...
In four pages this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...
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 original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...
of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...
In seven pages this paper presents a chapter by chapter synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter....
to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
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...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
determine if the use of upper case letters as a reading and writing support technique can improve reading and writing processes fo...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
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...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
"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...
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...
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...
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 reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...