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the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...

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

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...

to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

"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...

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...

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...

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

This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

In an essay consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the narrative framework develops the love and hate that are a part of male and...

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

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

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

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...

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...

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...