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In six pages this research paper examines the tension that exists between independence and dependence as reflected in Nathaniel Ha...

In five pages this research paper examines female stereotypes in a consideration of protagonist Hester Prynne featured in Nathanie...

upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

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

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

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

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...

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...

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

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

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

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

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

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

of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

"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...

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...

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

This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

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

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