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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In "The Birthmark," the scientist, Aylmer, fixates on his wife's one imperfection--a hand-shaped birthmark that mars her otherwise beautiful face. When Georgiana, the wife, turns pale, the mark...
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Young Goodman Brown
After his experiences with the old traveler, having witnessed Goody Cloyse and Deacon Gookin flying through the air, and the black mass in the forest, Goodman Brown loses his faith. In the forest,...
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The Birth-Mark
First, syntax is defined in several ways, but a good working definition is this: syntax is (i) the arrangement or order of words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence and (ii) the principles that...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The narrator wakes up but then sinks into the covers and has a chill, not from cold, but from the idea of a frozen world outside. He retreats to the warmth of the bed. But this confinement makes...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Hawthorne's allegorical story, New England is composed of two groups of settlers, the residents of Mary Mount and the Puritans. In this new land, "[J]ollity and gloom were contending for an...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gothic themes can include horror, terror, the supernatural, spiritual, melancholy, and the imaginary. In "The Haunted Mind," the narrator contemplates a realm between sleep and being awake. He is...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
One element linking themes in Romanticism and Gothic literature is the power of the imagination. In more benevolent works, the imagination is praised for its ability to link the thinker/writer with...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
If we look at the third paragraph of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Maypole of Merry Mount," we can see very clearly that he is not describing real animals dancing around the Maypole but rather men...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" is a parody of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in which the allegory's main character, Christian, appears in a dream to the author. Like Bunyan's...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Another significant symbol in "Young Goodman Brown" is the staff that the old traveler carries made in ...the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to...
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The Scarlet Letter
In the novels The Scarlett Letter and The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne uses similar modern themes regarding human nature which are most salient in the way that physical and...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In both novels, Hawthorne develops Dark Romanticism in his suggestion that evil is a malevolent force from which there can be no easy escape. Transcendentalist thinkers like Emerson and Thoreau...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Since an inquiry about critical research of Hawthorne was also made, the student may wish to explore articles/ essays in such reference works as Critical Literary Criticisms. These volumes of...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you have access to a college or relatively large public library, you can find in the Reference section a series of volumes that contain excellent literary essays that analyze myriad works; these...
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Young Goodman Brown
One of Hawthorne's themes in "Young Goodman Brown" is how the Puritan belief system affects the behavior of its believers. Among other things, Puritans such as Brown and his wife, Faith, believe...
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Young Goodman Brown
As your question implies, Goodman Brown's journey to the dark side is both physical and mental--in other words, Brown's desire to experience evil leads him into a physical space that no Puritan...
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Young Goodman Brown
When Young Goodman Brown dreams that he hears Faith's voice in the sky above him and then sees that "something fluttered down through the air," which turns out to be a pink ribbon, his Puritan...
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Feminism in Literature
Indeed, the argument can be made that The Scarlet Letter lays some of the groundwork for feminist literature. Hester Prynne stands apart from the Puritan community as a non-member; furthermore, she...
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Salem Witch Trials
There are several theories about the origin of the witch trials at Salem (originally, Danvers, Massachusetts). Some scholars argue that it was a result of the Puritan belief system; some have...
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Alice Walker
When contemplating the exercise of writing a personal response to literature, students first should select a work that touches them emotionally or in some other very personal way. In other words,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shrouded in the ambiguity attached to evil and its effects upon the human consciousness, "The Hollow of the Three Hills" acts as a precursor to many of Hawthorne's later narratives as this story...
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Young Goodman Brown
The narrator of "Young Goodman Brown" is what is called a limited omniscient narrator, which means that the narrator stands outside the story and can see into the thoughts and feelings of only one...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Signor Pietro Baglioni, Professor of Medicine in the University, a physician of eminent repute,.... Professor Baglioni is a doctor of great fame and prestige (i.e, "eminent repute") in Padua....
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Young Goodman Brown
You may be hard pressed to prove that young Goodman Brown is in "pursuit of sin" since his aversion of it is what causes him to become a "stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a...
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The Scarlet Letter
An allegorical text is one where there are basically hidden meanings and abstract ideas, more often theological in nature, which are depicted through simple or complex symbols, usually the...
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The Scarlet Letter
In the beginning of chapter VI, the very first paragraph in fact, Hester's daughter is named and explicitly discussed. Hester names her daughter Pearl; but as the narrator explains, the name does...
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The Scarlet Letter
As far as sentence structure is concerned, Hawthorne applies the use of compound, compound/complex, and complex sentences throughout his stories. This means that he tends to link a few different...
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The Cask of Amontillado
Russian Formalism was conceived as an objective, scientific approach to examining literary texts to determine the systematic structural and technical aspects, or "functions," that determined its...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Several factors are believed to have contributed to the dark tone found in many of Hawthorne's writings. First, Hawthorne grew up in a very strictly religious environment in New England, something...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
After Hawthorne graduated from college he spent a long period in seclusion working on his writing. He had decided to become a freelance writer. He was to be one of the first such independent,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
As the Enotes study guide on Romanticism points out, the literary movement (which in America is more commonly referred to as American Transcendentalism) stressed the importance of personal...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two authors of Dark Romanticism, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe explore in their writings the mystical and the melancholy aspects of America's Puritan thought. In their works, they...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whereas Washington Irving's folk tales are characterized by a wry humor with touches of mystery and sentimentality, Nathaniel Hawthorne's narratives possess a darkly meditative and uncertain tone,...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The principle archetypes, representing the three principal characters, are the Old Crone, the loving Mother, and the wronged though once valiant Warrior and father. Archetype theory holds that...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The answer to your question is that the short story "David Swan" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set along a well-traveled road. David is on his way to Boston and chooses to rest in a quiet glen next to...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The background to Hawthorne's understanding of natural law is both classical and Christian. In the fifth century, philosophers and sophists distinguished between "physis" or "nature/natural law"...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Denis Diderto, a philosopher of the Enlightenment, once declared, "The truest history is full of falsehoods, but the romance is full of truths." Certainly, the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne's story of Young Goodman Brown was a story of morality and hypocrisy. This short story is a perfect example of the seventeenth-century Puritan society. Hawthorne wrote the story as a...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Although Hawthorne is often considered a novelist, he thought of himself as a writer of “romances.” “Romances,” in Hawthorne’s sense, are less “realistic” than novels. “Romances”...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne is actually considered by critics at large to be a "Dark Romantic" rather than a Romantic, though of course it is recognised that this fits into the wider definition of...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
well a satire means the ridicule of human folly so The Great Carbuncle is a satire because it makes fun of how all the different people tried to reach the gem but all failed but Matthew and Hannah....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne tended to write historically and about topics as a result of his work experiences. Like most writers he performed many side jobs to make ends meet and his writings left a greater mark...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
As you can assess, the theme of the story is that of a serious one. While the theme may be serious, the tone is prevented from traveling in the same direction by use of some figures of speech. They...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think Hawthorne does this to prove he has gone to great lengths to research for his writing before he put it in context. He hopes to validate and give credibility to the expertise he has in...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the early Nineteenth-century, anyone who attended college received a "classical education." Memorizing both Latin and Greek literature was the majority of one's "homework." Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
In this story, I can see many figures of speech. Here are two of them. First, there is hyperbole. This is a figure of speech where a speaker exaggerates some quality or characteristic of some...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The moral of Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," relates to the development of a person's moral character and feelings about old age. In Dr. Heidegger's experiment, in which...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The central background to the Hawthorne plant studies revolved around the issues of worker treatment and productivity changes. At the time of the study, early 20th Century America had become fully...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 and died in 1864 in Salem Massachusetts. His family had strong ties with Puritanism. And one of his relatives was actually involved in the Salem Witch Trials....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The primary similarity between Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "Young Goodman Brown" is that both stories deal with the basic conflict of good versus evil. In each story, an innocent...