YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Essays 121 - 150
find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...
believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
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 ...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
"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...
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...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
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 ...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
In eight pages this paper examines the importance of home in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...