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Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...

Letter A Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...

Feminist Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

Feminism Influence of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In eight pages Margaret Fuller's writings are among the topics considered in this analysis of how 19th century feminism was influe...

Sin, Redemption, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

sewn, per the magistrates instructions, is "fantastically embroidered" (54). While on the scaffolding, Hester sees her husband sta...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

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

Literature and Analysis of Character, Theme, Symbols, and Setting

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Three Authors on Nonconformity

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

Societal Restrictions as Reflected in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Scarlet Letter

A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

American Romantic Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper discusses the English Romantic movement and how American Romanticism is characterized the works of Nathan...

Fourteenth U.S. President Franklin Pierce

In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Historical Context

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

Scientific Perspectives of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

American Literature's Romantic Movement

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

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

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

Literary Social Criticism

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

Rev. Hooper's Last Words in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Position Paper on Religious Symbolism in 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

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

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Freedom

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...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Language and Communication in South Africa

of people in the nation are illiterate (Kenny, 2003). When examining poorer populations, most people who live on one dollar per d...

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

also illustrating how she was not a woman who was likely insecure. As the poem moves on the narrator informs the reader even mor...

The Hero’s Journey

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

Midnight Rising, Tony Horwitz

This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...

Technology and Culture

In five pages the connection between technology and culture is examined with a discussion of Auletta's The Highwaymen, Goodman's L...