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351: The Scarlet Letter: Evil of Isolation: ... Scarlet Letter is not a termination of life, the evil of isolation can be a physically, morally, and socially tortuous event in Puritan society. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, are both victims of the cruel isolation from Puritan society on the basis of their sins. Hester wears her sin upon her breast where it stands ...

352: Bartleby, the Failure: ... readers, although he professed his own demise with Bartleby's atrophy. His other employees, Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut, were similar to other writers who inspired Melville, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne. The narrator describes them as "most valuable" and "accomplishing a great deal"(1133). However, this inspiration from other authors could have depressed Melville, who was not nearly as successful. In ...

353: Canterbury Tales The Knights T: ... to be for good or bad. Ike deliberate and disciplined mature of the woods… represents his dedicated struggle for self-discovery and self-knowledge .The forest, as it is in Hawthorne's fiction, is symbolic of the unconscious self. Ike must wander through the maze; he must search the labyrinths of his own deepest self in order to discover who he ...

354: The Scarlet Letter: ... things, this would have been an inspirational book and possibly a revelation. In short, this book could have been exceptional; it had all the elements of a superb book. Unfortunately, Hawthorne found himself a rather large thesaurus and added a bunch of mindless prattle that mellowed out the high points of the book and expanded on the low points. In many ...

355: The Scarlet Letter: How are Life's Lessons Learned?: ... the consequences are good, we know that the action should be repeated, sometimes. If bad consequences outweigh the good, we know repeating would not be wise. Hester Prynne of Nataniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, learns from punishment and the consequences of adultery, but from which does she learn more from? Punishment from the magistrates was usually strict and severe. Hester ...

356: The Scarlet Letter: Misconstrued Identity of Hester Prynne: ... Often in exceptional works of literature, the identities of of charactrers are misconstrued so that readers are unclear of the thoughts and intentions of these characters. Hester Prynne of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is no different. Hester Prynne is not entirely as she may seem. The reader may still be unclear of Hesters thoughts even after reading the book ...

357: Emerson: ... Emerson died of pneumonia in Concord on April 27, 1882. He was seventy- eight years old. Emerson is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery next to Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne, two writers who he had influenced. (Gay 254) After his death, his Edward Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes edited and published his journals in ten volumes in 1909. (Richardson)

358: The House Of The Seven Gables: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES The story begins as Nathaniel Hawthorne lays down the setting and describes the house of the seven-gables and the story of its creation. The house is old and overrun by moss weeds and bushes, but ...

359: Religion In A Farewell To Arms: ... War in the 20th Century Religion in "A Farewell to Arms" For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude and in other writings, and even Ernest Hemingway used his writing to ...

360: Review Of Amistad: ... McConaughey). During the proceedings this case divides a nation. Two great American figures butt heads in debate as to what the outcome should be. Pro-Slavery Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne), seeking re-election in 1840, is willing to convict the Africans to gain favor with voters in the South, as well as with Queen Isabella of Spain (Anna Paquin). His ...

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