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This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...

to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

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...

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...

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...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

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 ...

all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...

55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun are the source of much critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work. This pap...

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...

In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...

In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Rev. Dimmesdale in a focus of the adultery theme in Hawthorne's novel. ...