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Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this paper examines the importance of symbols to the telling of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown.' There are 7 ...
In five pages this paper examines how this short story features the author's powerful use of symbolism. Five sources are cited in...
In 6 pages the theme of scientific experimentation as it is represented in both of these short stories are analyzed. There are 6 ...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
In five pages this paper examines the presentation of the theme of guilt in a consideration of the short stories 'My Kinsman, Majo...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...
In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...
In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...
At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...
conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...
Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which peop...
novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...
came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...