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- 261: The Scarlet Letter And The Cru
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible are both distinctly different narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is ...
- 262: The Scarlet Letter: Human Beings are Evil?
- ... didn't have any political power. This shows how full of evil these human self appointed judges are, and they do not only judge Hester, they also judge judges' decision. Hawthorne comments this barbarism by describing these judges: "…the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges," (p. 49). These evil women set themselves up themselves as ...
- 263: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... the Clerk of the Supreme Court, (this must be a formality) within two days after Lincoln receives his law license he participated in his first case in Springfield. Docketed as Hawthorne v. Wooldridge. As a lawyer Lincoln traveled through several counties in central and eastern Illinois on the 8th Judicial Circuit. Lincoln argued several cases in court and won a major ...
- 264: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales ...
- 265: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Scarlet Letter: To Live With Fear
- ... test of maturity. This test has been "taken" by various literary characters. Chief Bromden in Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter both appear to have taken and passed this test. It first seemed as though the Chief was going to fail this test of maturity in the ...
- 266: Wallace Stevens
- ... inquisitive, creative, brilliant, and solitary; and all of these qualities stayed with him as he grew older. He loved football and reading: his favorites were, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. All three of the Stevens' boys' graduated from Reading Boys' School and Wallace gave the commencement speech and received much praise for his poise and confidence while speaking. Each of ...
- 267: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... he went" (Thoreau 276). Though Thoreau spent many of his days alone, contemplating or writing in his journal, he did entertain some family and close friends like Elleny Channing, Nathaniel Hawthorne, his sister Cynthia, and Emerson. "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society" (usmh12.usmd.edu/thoreau). He even shared some ...
- 268: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... and the Andes come and go as rainbows." [Thomas- 255] Peaceful Pioneers was Emerson's philosophical dream. A world with no wars, friends who were courageous, independent, joyous and loving. Hawthorne said that when he would meet Emerson on one of his walks, "...it was impossible to dwell in the vicinity without inhaling the mountain atmosphere of his lofty thoughts." [Thomas ...
- 269: Herman Melville
- ... in a Man-of-War (1850) fictionalized his experiences in the navy. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or The White Whale (1851). The central theme of the novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod ...
- 270: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories; but none has produced so great a number of famous and unforgettable examples, so many tales ...
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