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checks and a five-day waiting period before purchasing a gun (Miller, 2005). The Clinton administration was encouraged by the pas...

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

men in blankets who would sexually use little boys as prostitutes. The boys would receive money and so they would be able to eat a...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

This paper contrasts and compares how the trickster is presented in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories and in Mark Twain's ...

The human element can bring two seemingly mutually exclusive tales and ideas together. This essay uses Maus, A Survivor's Tale by ...

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

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...

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

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

In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...

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

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...

the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities between the journey into the woods and the Puritan journey into the wilderness...

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...

Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which peop...

conflict of his characters. It is recommended that the person who is writing about this topic consider that much of Nathaniel Haw...

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