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Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

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

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

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

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

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

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

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

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

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

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...

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

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

This 5 page paper argues that true love is a rare, idealised type of love that is truly found only in a parent's love for a child....

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

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

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

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

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

pavilions from all different nations, and its possible to buy food and authentic merchandise from the country youre visiting. The...

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

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does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...