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- 301: Henry David Thoreau
- ... Minnesota in 1861 in search of better health, Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis. Thoreau was buried in Sleep Hollow Cemetery in Concord near his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bronson Alcott (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 2). Thoreau never earned a livelihood by writing, but his works fill twenty volumes. His first book, A Week on the Concord ...
- 302: Ethan Brand
- By: alex deyo Too Close to God, Too Far From Man In the short story Ethan Brand, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ethan Brand lusts for knowledge that leads him on a quest for the unpardonable sin. The unpardonable sin, as one may interpret, is pride and self-gain. It is a ...
- 303: Scarlet Letter
- By: Greg Cober Greg Cober 10/26/98 English P. 4 Scarlet Letter In Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, life evolves around a rigid and harsh Puritan view. In this society people are not free to express themselves as well as they are today. This ...
- 304: Scarlet Letter
- By: Candy Nathaniel Hawthorne was a great American writer in his time. He saw problems in the government and the ways people lived their lives that were beyond his years. The Scarlet Letter was ...
- 305: The Scarlet Letter
- By: Anonymous Throughout The Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many literal and figurative items to illustrate the significance of various characters or themes. Coupled with the tangible evidence given, the reader can make many miscellaneous assumptions of the ...
- 306: The Scarlet Letter Notes By Ch
- By: Kevin THE SCARLET LETTER The Custom House: Hawthorne says that he writes to the whole world hoping that someone will understand what he is talking about. He goes on to speak about Salem, where his relatives have lived ...
- 307: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- ... John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe, and C. S. Lewis. This curriculum is not at all what Schlesinger claims to be the current "American literary canon: Emerson, Jefferson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Lincoln, Twain, Dickinson, William and Henry James, Henry Adams, Holmes, Dreiser, Faulknner, O' Neill." We touched on most of these people also, but not nearly as in depth as ...
- 308: Antigone Vs. Billy Budd
- ... also, in the end, his wife. This is paralleled by the enormous amount of Biblical allusions in Melville's Billy Budd. Even though Melville was a religious skeptic, his friend Hawthorne said that he was neither believe nor be comfortable in his disbelief, and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other. This could ...
- 309: Crucible 4
- Trials of Her Sins Hester Prynne, Nathanial Hawthorne's character from his novel, The Scarlet Letter, and Abigail Williams, from "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller, have both committed a crime and they are both hated by their societies ...
- 310: Daisy Miller
- ... and James wrote French Poets and Novelists (criticism), and The Europeans (novel). While visiting Paris and Italy in 1879, he wrote Daisy Miller (novella), An International Episode; the critical biography, Hawthorne; and The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales. The following year, he wrote the novel, Confidence, while traveling in Italy. In 1881, James wrote the novels, Washington Square and ...
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