1. "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
From Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, One of the most complex and misunderstood symbols in the book is Pearl, the illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale. Because Pearl was born from a man other than Hestor's husband, the townspeople call her the devil child. At first, P...
"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton is about a man named Ethan and his struggle to find happiness. He lives in a run down farm with his wife Zeena who thinks that she is sick. After Taking care of Zeena for six years they hire Mattie to help around the house, Ethan falls in love with her and they have ...
Faith In Salvation: The Irony Of It All Young Langston Hughes and "Young Goodman Brown" share a many distinct similarities when dealing with spiritual and religious beliefs. In fact the short poem "Salvation" shares many of the characteristics of the short story "Young Goodman Brown". Each de...
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. The story "The Minister's Bl...
When strangers looked curiously at the scarlet letter, "and none ever failed to do so, "they branded it afresh into Hester's soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand" (Hawthorne, 93). ...
Hester's Isolation and Alienation in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale have committed adultery, an unacceptable sin during the Puritan times. As a result of their sin, a child is born, whom the mother names P...
Brett Marc American Literature Oct 22 2003 Scarlet Letter - Pearl as a symbol Pearl is a symbol of Hester's transgressions and even has similar qualities as the sin which she represents. Pearl's life and behavior directly reflects the unacceptable and abnormal nature of Hester's adulterous s...
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the character of Hester Prynne suffered from a case of mass hysteria and superstition rather than a becoming victim of sin. During the seventeenth century, in Puritan New England, a sin was looked upon as merely a sin with no context to the causes or ef...
When strangers looked curiously at The Scarlet Letter, - and none ever failed to do so, - they branded it afresh in Hester's soul; so that, oftentimes, she could scarcely refrain, yet always did refrain, from covering the symbol with her hand....
