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its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

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

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

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

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

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

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

the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...

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

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Although various cultures and religions have practiced veiling at various points in history, the contemporary practice of veiling ...

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

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...

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

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 ...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

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