Nathaniel Hawthorne is associated with the "anti-transcendentalists." ... They also believed that the works of these authors didn't look very closely at the evil in the world. ... This side of the movement only has two writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Hawthorne shows the ideas of this literary movement very well in "The Minister's Black Veil." ... These are many of the reasons that have helped me to understand why Nathaniel Hawthorne is grouped with the anti-transcendentalists. ...

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Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving have similar views on death and the afterlife that they express in their short stories which is in agreement with some of the fundamental ideas of Puritanism. All three authors seem to express the idea that it is important to stay away from indulgence and sin, and to instead spiritually focus on repenting and preparing for the afterlife. ... In "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a minister wore a black veil to cover himself up from the sinning that he did and that everyone was currently doing. ... This metho...

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"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that has a lot of allegories. ... The author endows each symbol with an allegory-meaning. ... The author doesn't just give the random names to the characters. ... In the wording and purport of what Hawthorne writes, the forest is always dark, dark and dark. ... We can see, Hawthorne describes the forest at every mental change of young Goodman Brown. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of "The Minister's Black Veil- and "Rappaccini's Daughter,"" lived a life of solitude "devoting the majority of his existence to the acquisition of knowledge. ... In any respect, the image of human isolation remains symbolic in both "The Minister's Black Veil- and "Rappaccini's Daughter- as well as in Nathaniel Hawthorn's life. ...

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The Minister's Black Veil In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil", the author chooses to mask the character of the minister with the black veil to construct an allegory that would compare sin concocted by imagination with unrecognized sin of one's self. ... With the story being set in the Puritan period of the settlement of New England, as nearly all of Hawthorne's stories are, the reader can logically infer a certain set of value judgments. ... This idea of the occult always seems to find its way into a Hawthorne story, and The Minister's Black...

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The Irony and Symbolism of Young Goodman Brown In Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many different symbols and ironic happenings throughout the story. The author's use of names and his idea of no one being perfect are portrayed extremely well. ... In the beginning of the story, the author describes Faith as being angelic. ... In this short story, Hawthorne tries to get the idea across that no one is perfect. ... Hawthorne uses symbolism to write this story that is open and ambiguous to interpretation. ...

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Hawthorne does not characterize Goodman Brown by his physical appereance. ... I think that Nathaniel Hawthorne does not give Goodman Brown a very specific physical description because Hwathorne wants to make his short story more breathtaking and more interesting to the reader by giving the reader a chance to "experiment" with the protagonist's character. 3. ... Hawthorne is able to create a dark gloomy setting through little description. ... I think that the author's tone towards the protagonist, Goodman Brown, is somewhat neutral. ... There are quite a few occasions where the...

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Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story about a young husband and wife and the journey that the husband (Goodman Brown) takes one night. ... Hawthorne uses symbolism, settings, and irony to define his complex character in all three parts of "Young Goodman Brown" this paper will analysis all the aspects that make Young Goodman Brown change through out the short story "Young Goodman Brown". The exposition occurs at the beginning of a story or the first paragraph, this is where the author reveals the protagonist. ... In this passage the author criticizes at religion and th...

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The poet and author Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates these natural truths in the outward appearance of a short story titled " My Kinsman, Major Molineux." ... The language that Hawthorne uses to help define the central idea of the story lies within a comparison of light and dark imagery. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Updike is a well-recognized American author known for his novels and short stories in the realm of fiction. ... The author jumps around through a lot of time periods and story lines through the piece. ... One critic stated that "Updike is and always will be no less a national treasure than his 19th century precursor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Through his writing, John Updike quintessentially captured America`s middle class, ("Editors, Critics Reflect on the Life of Author John Updike.")... All and all, Updike is a talented author was is well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School