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sewn, per the magistrates instructions, is "fantastically embroidered" (54). While on the scaffolding, Hester sees her husband sta...

In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

In five pages this paper discusses the English Romantic movement and how American Romanticism is characterized the works of Nathan...

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

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

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

also illustrating how she was not a woman who was likely insecure. As the poem moves on the narrator informs the reader even mor...