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manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

In a paper consisting of four pages these writings are compared in terms of symbolism and the meanings of these powerful symbols i...

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

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

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

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

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

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

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....