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of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

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

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

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...

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

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

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...

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

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...

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...

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

is linked to moral, religious and political views about the legalities involved in gay marriage and the sanctioning of gay and les...

right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...

the woman reaps any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, th...

care without losing her job, as the spouse "cannot miss classes at school" (Brady 361). I know a young couple where it is the husb...

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