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The Long Walk to Freedom

that dream. Mandela was indeed prepared to die and had come to the realization that violence was sometimes necessary to eff...

Rhetoric and Nelson Mandela

the state. He is quite logical also in denying the charge that he has been influenced by "foreigners or communists," as he makes i...

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...

The Extremes of Love and Hate as an 'All or Nothing' Proposition

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

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...

A STUDY OF COMMON IDEAS IN LATE MEDIEAL EUROPE

about humanitys relationship to God was that God was chief ruler. "Praise God at your waking," it says in the first article of the...

Hawthorne and Poe

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

"Young Goodman Brown" - A Psychoanalytic Reading

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Symbolism and Allegory in “Young Goodman Brown”

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

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

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...

Hawthorne, Faulkner and the Element of Culture

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

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter"

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Retribution and Sin

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

Puritanism of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

Romanticism in Two Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

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

Setting and Language of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

Evil Temptation in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

Character Analysis of 'Young Goodman Brown,' I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the Film Version of The Crucible

was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...

Dismissing Women to Achieve Male Happiness in the Works of Hawthorne, Poe, and Irving

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...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

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 ...

The Money Game by Adam Smith

In eight pages the advice this book written by George Goodman using a famous pseudonym offers in the areas of macroeconomics and t...

Unsympathetic Characterization in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper discusses the author's unsympathetic characterization of the protagonist in 'Young Goodman Brown.' One s...