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the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

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....

In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...

Then Hester returns to Boston. Because she is strong, and because she loves Pearl and Dimmesdale, it seems unlikely that she is d...

that only through the righteous acts of our lives could redemption be obtained. This belief also encompassed the fact that appear...

In four pages this creative writing sample features a letter in which Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale explains to Hester why he cannot ...

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...

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 paper examines Benjamin Franklin's autobiography in a consideration of Puritanism and anti Puritanism. Two oth...

my learning and my moving through the world. You may remember that I was the fifth daughter of nine children. My mother loved me...

In six pages this once influential poem is examined in terms of its celebration of nature's solace triumphing over death fears tha...

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...

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...

Crane was followed by a mysterious headless horseman, he does not return to marry Katrina. She in turn marries someone else. The s...

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

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...

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...

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

"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...

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...