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as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

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

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

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...

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

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

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

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

(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...

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

"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...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

impact on both the quality and productivity of the workplace. It showed that any environmental changes, could, in the short term i...

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 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...

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...