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upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...

In six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

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...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

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...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

On the other hand, if the attack is primarily intended as a background setting from which the main character extrapolates their ow...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...