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find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...
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...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
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...
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...
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...
a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...
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...
This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...
In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In 8 pages this paper discusses how guilt and sin are represented in these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are 5 sources cit...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...
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...
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...
This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...
This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
In five pages this paper compares DeLillo's and Hawthorne's works in terms of social acceptance and isolation. There are 3 source...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...