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This essay considers the nature of suffering in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and focuses on the private and public suf...
In four pages this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...
that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...
In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...
of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...
In seven pages this paper presents a chapter by chapter synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter....
to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....
Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
In five pages this quote is considered within the context of injustice in a discussion of such works as Chief Joseph's I Will Figh...
determine if the use of upper case letters as a reading and writing support technique can improve reading and writing processes fo...
my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...
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...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...
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...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...
its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
done if they are to change their existence. She wonders if its possible for women to ever be truly happy. She wonders if existence...
This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...
Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
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...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...