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Essays 91 - 120
In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
(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...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...
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...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
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...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...
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...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married ...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...