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Essays 271 - 300
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...
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 ...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
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 his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
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...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...
as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...
was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...
national-liberation leader."1 The author then notes a very intriguing point in that while none of these descriptions are entirely ...
notes that Byron "emphasizes specially the spirit of revolt against society ... But his villain-heroes ... are selfish and unscrup...
Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...
This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...
Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...
This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...
it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...
the white classes living in the east side while black citizens were relegated to the west side because that was the only location ...