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a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...
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...
Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...
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...
symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...
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 ...
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...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
tearing away the band that identifies him as a minister, as it was his social office as minister that he was able to use to keep h...
he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...
of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...
of enduring the terrifying experience of being set apart from it. Ironically, Hesters partner is sin is also present at the scaffo...
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 five page paper addresses the themes of conflict and emotion experienced by Hawthorne's characters in The Scarlet Letter. The...
In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...
"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...
In six pages this paper analyzes the Arthur Dimmesdale character in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and what it symboliz...
This 5 page paper reviews The Scarlet Letter, the classic first published in 1850. Even then, however, adultery was a universal t...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...
In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...
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 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
In five pages this report examines Hawthorne's style of using comparison and dichotomy as it relates to characterizations and scen...
In four pages this paper examines the importance of symbolism in this novel with the emphasis being upon the 'scarlet letter A' re...
This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...