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Nathaniel Hawthorne Proposal

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

Impact of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Mythology and Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

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

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Women of the 19th Century and the Issues That Confronted Them

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

Depiction of Women in 2 Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

The Scarlet Letter, Portrayals of Suffering

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

A Synthesis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories' The Birth-Mark', 'Lady Eleanore's Mantle,' 'The Minister's Black Veil,' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Witches, Faith and the Devil an Analysis of Young Goodman Brown

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

Romance in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Critical Essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Consideration of the Quote 'No Man is an Island'

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...

Hunted or Haunted Protagonists in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Independence and Dependence

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

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Feminist Analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Life Reflections of Nathaniel Hawthorne in 'Young Goodman Brown'

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

Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marriage

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

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

American Experience and Change in Irving, Calisher, and Hawthorne

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Stephen Crane's 'The Monster' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....

Evil Characterizations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Herman Melville's Billy Budd

In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...