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Essays 241 - 270
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...
for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...
to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...
"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...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...
In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
In five pages this paper examines interpersonal communication within the contexts of protagonists Bigger Thomas in Native Son and ...
In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...
In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....
In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...