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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The writer reviews the content and approach of a letter written by Rick Gore concerning The Conceptual Framework for Financial Rep...

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

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...