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

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...

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 ...

novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

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...

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

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

At the same time, however, the critic takes on the role of the patient in their transference of his or her feelings in regard to a...

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

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

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...

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

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

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...

This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

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

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

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

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

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

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...