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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...
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
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....
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...
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...
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 addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
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 twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
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 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...