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for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

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

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

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

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

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

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...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

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

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

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

(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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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