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

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...

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

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

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

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

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

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

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

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

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

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

all (Hinze PG). Dickinson is described as reclusive and shy. Although she was well educated, she is said to have often deferred ...

Godlike erect, with native Honour clad...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

said to have been a reaction against classicism. In Germany it was a reaction rather against rationalism, emerging together with a...

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...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

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...

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

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

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

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...