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In five pages this paper analyzes 'The Birth Mark' and compares it to other Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories including 'Young Goo...
was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...
In a paper consisting of four pages these writings are compared in terms of symbolism and the meanings of these powerful symbols i...
turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes n...
This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...
In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
also the Salem of his ancestors" (Hawthorne.htm). When we understand something of the history of Salem, as well as the history of ...
freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...
manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...
attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
lower crime rates, that reductions in crime must originate within individuals. Adding greater numbers of police all too often is ...
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 ...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...