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

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

to isolate themselves in worlds of their own construction. The characters of Bartleby and the lawyer both possess their own brand...

(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...

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

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

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

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

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

In five pages this paper examines the strange behavior exhibited by Bartleby throughout the course of Melville's story. There are...

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

In eleven pages this paper examines the impact of transcendentalism on the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with 'Young Go...

In five pages a comparative analysis of these Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories focuses on character, theme, development, and how ...

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

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

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

continues to build. The task of finding the real answer falls to the captain of the fist ship. What emerges then is a great myst...

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

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

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...

In five pages this paper considers how 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne epitomizes the principles of Romanticism. Three sou...

In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...

from New England Transcendentalism with the more radical social reforms of the time" (Massachusetts, brook_farm.html). At Brook Fa...

In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...