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- 141: Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
- Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman ... to that of Adam and Eve being led out of the Garden of Eden as is Goodman Brown being led out of his utopia by the Devil's snakelike staff. Hawthorne at this point remarks about "the instinct that guides mortal man to evil". This is a direct statement from the author that he believes that man's natural inclination is ... all on fire, besprinkled his cheek with the coldest dew." The dew on his cheek represents a tear that Brown is unable to produce because of his lack of emotion. Hawthorne shows that Brown has "no compassion for the weaknesses he sees in others, no remorse for his own sin, and no sorrow for his loss of faith." (Easterly 339) ...
- 142: The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism
- ... a moral or religious belief or value. Without symbolism literature is just a bunch of meaningless words on paper. The most symbolic piece of work in American Literature is Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's use of symbolism in The Scarlet Letter is one of the most significant contributions to the rise of American Literature. Much of Hawthorne's symbolism is very hard to find but several symbols are also obvious. In the first chapter Hawthorne describes the prison as "the black flower of civilized society". The ...
- 143: The Blithedale Romance
- The Woman Named Zenobia In Hawthorne's story The Blithedale Romance, we are introduced to the character Zenobia. Zenobia is a wealthy woman who considers herself to be a feminist. She is always preaching her view ... does all of this just so Hollingsworth will love her. The reader begins to see the fall of Zenobia's feministic character more from the way she is with Hollingsworth. Hawthorne uses irony to portray Zenobia's character. The way she portrays herself in society and the way she acts toward Hollingsworth are the most ironic characteristics. In the public society ... be, false, foolish, vain, destructive of her own best and holiest qualities The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stay beyond it"(Hawthorne, 101-02). After such a statement the reader would expect Zenobia to jump up with outrage and speak back at Hollingsworth with her feministic views, but she does not. ...
- 144: Young Goodman Brown-the Awaren
- ... life altering events that change his perspective of the world and the people of Salem village. These events, and the knowledge gained from them, create a miserable life for Brown. Hawthorne uses supernatural events, the uncertainty created by the dark forest setting, and encounters with trusted moral advisors to cause the rest of Brown s life to become gloomy. First of all, Hawthorne uses supernatural events to make the rest of Goodman Brown s life gloomy. For example, Brown encounters a black cloud mass from which the accents of the townspeople , men and ... events cause Brown s life to become a gloomy one because of new knowledge he possesses. Furthermore, other than using supernatural events to cause Brown to live a gloomy life, Hawthorne uses the uncertainty created by the dark forest setting. For instance, as Brown enters the forest he notices, it is darkened by the gloomiest tress (51) and he fears ...
- 145: The Scarlet Letter: Physical and Psychological Effects and Consequences of Adultry
- The Scarlet Letter: Physical and Psychological Effects and Consequences of Adultry Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is about a young beautiful woman, Hester Prynne, who comes to Boston from England. While living by herself, waiting for her husband to move to the ... her sin, she is forced to wear a scarlet A on the bodice of her dress. Afew years pass by, and one day Hester’s true husband, Roger Chillingworth returns. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter demonstrates the physical and psychological effects and consequences of adultery in all of the novel’s characters. Hester Prynne suffers many consequences of committing adultery. First ... has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of the human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!” In the concluding chapter, when Hawthorne speaks of Chillingworth’s withering up and shriveling away, he makes it plain that the physician’s fate was the most horrible of the three because his was the ...
- 146: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment: Reality or Illusion
- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment: Reality or Illusion In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, one of the central ideas of the story revolves around the idea of reality versus illusion. Of course the overriding theme of the ... the most was reading the text as literal, and concluding the experiment as reality rather then a figment of imagination caused by the intoxicating brew. A couple of points that Hawthorne made led me to believe that the story was indeed a true testament of the powers of the magical water. The first is rather evident and straight forward because it ... Heidegger places the rose in the water so there could be proof of the mysterious water's power, but in the same act of proving its power to his guests Hawthorne proves to us the power of the water because when the rose regains life nobody was drunk or had even attempted to drink the water. "The crushed and dried ...
- 147: Scarlet Letter - Pearl
- The Little Human A Incarnate In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but ... Pearl reached up and grasped the letter, causing "Hester Prynne [to] clutch the fatal token so infinite was the torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl's baby-hand" (Hawthorne 66). The torture Hester felt was reflected by the significant reminder of the sin that brought Pearl into life. Hester feels guilty whenever she sees Pearl, a feeling she reflects ... a living child demonstrating her parents sin. Hester's views toward Pearl changes from merely questioning Pearl's existence to perceiving Pearl as a demon sent to make her suffer. Hawthorne remarks that at times Hester is, "feeling that her penance might best be wrought out by this unutterable pain"(67). Hester even tries to deny that this "imp" is ...
- 148: Pearl - A Product Of Nature (T
- ... Why does she act so strangely and so differently than all the other characters? She acts this way because of a relationship she has with the force of Nature, which Hawthorne personifies as sympathetic towards sins against the puritan way of life. Because of this trait Hester's sin causes Nature to accept Pearl. Finally, Pearl's acceptance of Nature is ... portal, and rooted almost at the threshold"(36) of the prison. The prison naturally is the place where people that have sinned against the puritan way of life remain. Then Hawthorne suggests that the roses of the rose-bush "might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal ... the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him"(36). This clearly states that Nature is kind to prisoners and criminals that pass through the prison doors. Hawthorne strengthens this point by suggesting two possible reasons for the rosebush's genesis. The first is that "it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness..."(36), while ...
- 149: The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment
- The Scarlet Letter: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment Nathaniel Hawthorne’s venerated psychological novel, The Scarlet Letter, is about the life a woman who is punished by a theocratic society. She is persecuted because she rebelled against the rules of this society. One major concept Hawthorne used in his novel is theocratic domination. The theocratic society dominated all of life with its rules and regulations. Those who were nonsubmissive to their rules would face harsh and ... the people it dictated over. By placing guilt on people for their sin and punishing them if they were insubordinate to the rules, a theocratic society can control its people. Hawthorne presents the concept and theme through his use of literary devices or techniques such as imagery, symbolism, and light and dark words. Theocratic domination is the ambience of control ...
- 150: The Scarlet Letter: The Symbolic Scaffold
- The Scarlet Letter: The Symbolic Scaffold Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the powerful scaffold setting three times throughout his novel, The Scarlet Letter to portray the themes woven into his tale of sin. The title of Hawthorne’s novel alludes to the fact that the scarlet A, the symbol of Hester Prynne’s adultery, plays a main role in the plot of the story. Each scene that ... place on the scaffold includes the symbolic letter. The Scarlet Letter has three powerful scenes, each one being more climactic than the previous, and each taking place on the scaffold. Hawthorne opens the novel with a main character, Hester Prynne being led out of a prison and then taken to the scaffold. Hester must stand here for three hours while ...
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