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like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

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

Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which peop...

In eight pages this character analysis of Hawthorne's protagonist considers her role and the social conflict she represented. Fiv...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

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...

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

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...

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 four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...