In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Young Goodman Brown," the reader is introduced to a young man who has made a conscious decision to go into the forest to meet with Satan. Most critical analysis of this short story finds that there are a lot of references to the period of time around the Salem Witch Trials and the way New Englanders lived after this period. ... Young Goodman Brown has decided much to the angst of his wife, to go into the forest to carry out an evil journey. Young Goodman Brown departs his wife and heads into the forest, in the dark of night, knowing that he...

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Chillingworth's secret revenge changes him from a decent, scholarly man into a jealous monster. Dimmesdale's secret guilt corrupts the basic goodness of his nature and ultimately kills him:It had stupefied all blessed impulses, and awakened into vivid life the whole brotherhood of bad ones. ... Symbols Wild Rose Bush: Located just outside the prison door, it is the only sign of life near the prison, and has a single red blossom on it.The rose may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of h...

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Analysis of Hester Prynne from "A Scarlet Letter" In a time where women didn't stand for much, Hester Prynne stood up for her right to be a woman, to be human, to be strong. ... Pearl remarked as she looked into the armor at Governor Bellingham's estate. The "A" was deformed and transformed into an unusually enormous letter (97). ... It was "'modeled much after her own fancy, [and] seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity`" (52). ... He is acting as a leech, sucking away at Dimmesdale&#...

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Introduction In this research paper, we are going to deal with the short story 'Rappaccini's Daughter'. It is the work of the American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Our topic is built around symbolism. In fact, after a first reading of the short story, we have noticed a list of symbols that made us wonder about their implied meaning. In other words, we, as readers, felt guided by the author's words to seek the hidden or deep signification of these symbols. ...

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