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to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

one way or another, and men who perhaps want something more out of life. With Quoyle we have a man who moves to Newfoundland an...

nurturing as caring work. DeVaults contention from the start is that feeding a family (which again, is primarily gendered work, as...

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

also the Salem of his ancestors" (Hawthorne.htm). When we understand something of the history of Salem, as well as the history of ...

manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

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 ...

negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

In six pages this report considers the characters, their relationships, and how they are portrayed humorously and satirically by C...

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...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

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...