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possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...
This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...
In four pages this version of Arthur Miller's play is reviewed in terms of Willy Loman's character development and simplistic sett...
to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
In five pages this paper compares DeLillo's and Hawthorne's works in terms of social acceptance and isolation. There are 3 source...
the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...
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...
Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...