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sewn, per the magistrates instructions, is "fantastically embroidered" (54). While on the scaffolding, Hester sees her husband sta...

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

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

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

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

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

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...

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

This essay discusses the similarities and differences that characterize Macbeth and Banquo in Act I. The writer argues that their ...

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

of witches has been a repeating cycle, one that has occurred many times in the history of our country. What is surprising, then, ...

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

the Middle Ages progressed and a series of devastating events would lead the preindustrial European continent into mass witch hyst...