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the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

Chapter 87 One of the most powerful things we note in this particular chapter is the focus on issues of warfare and battle, issu...

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....

This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....

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...

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

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

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

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

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

why he engaged in such long sentences. Anyone who has read "Moby Dick," as well as "Billy Budd," will quickly recognize how Melvil...

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

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

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...

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

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

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

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

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...

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

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

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

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