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

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

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

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...

(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...

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

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

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

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

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...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

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

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

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

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

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

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...

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...

"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...

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 ...