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woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

worthy. With the ideals of Enlightenment we are given a much more complex train of thought as one must also examine the good of a ...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

why he engaged in such long sentences. Anyone who has read "Moby Dick," as well as "Billy Budd," will quickly recognize how Melvil...

served to deflect and in part falsify them" (Melville). Now at first look these lines appear to be nothing that would indicate ...

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...

done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...

This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...

he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...

of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...

of enduring the terrifying experience of being set apart from it. Ironically, Hesters partner is sin is also present at the scaffo...

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

The writer reviews the content and approach of a letter written by Rick Gore concerning The Conceptual Framework for Financial Rep...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...