SEARCH RESULTS

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

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...

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...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

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

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

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

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

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

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 ...

"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...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

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

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

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

In six pages this research paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's life is mirrored in 'Young Goodman Brown.' Six sources are ci...

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 ...

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

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

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