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    societies that once populated the New England colonies captured this idea of community and heightened it to its extremes. The community’s stern regulations create a habitat which lacks personal expression and leaves little room within its boundaries for one’s own identity to be ascertained. Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates their austere standards for society throughout his novel‚ The Scarlet Letter. In a Puritan society dominated by the necessity to conform‚ only those who isolate themselves from the strict

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    always been a very big part of my life‚ and that is the way I love it. I play soccer‚ volleyball‚ basketball‚ and lacrosse for my school‚ as well as playing travel soccer for the LIJSL. I also enjoy playing softball‚ football‚ tennis and any other sport. Partaking in athletics has had an extremely positive influence on my life and my development as a person. For one thing‚ it has taught me cooperation and teamwork. It has taught me how to be a good leader and to work well under pressure. This has become

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    caused men to realize how unattractive they are and in what ways are they willing to correct the flaws of nature‚ which is often viewed as being a modern issue. In Hawthorne’s story‚ The Birthmark‚ these ideals are proved wrong. In year 1843‚ Hawthorne discovered that one of the great issues in society was engraved in a man’s determination to turn imperfection to perfection by any means necessary. Through a literary theorist lens‚ literature can be used to explain and show how unhappy men are themselves

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    Literature & Health HU 350.95H online Winter 2013 FINAL ASSIGNMENT: A LITERARY ANALYSIS Rappaccini ’s Daughter By Nathaniel Hawthorne “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a fascinating short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a medical scientist “Giacomo Rappaccini” who is researching exotic and poisonous plants. His daughter “Beatrice Rappaccini ” takes care of the poisonous plants for him and she too becomes poisonous. The story takes place in Padua in the medieval

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    Europe. How the author of the book Nathaniel Hawthorne family history contributes to his attitude towards “The Custom House” and his place of society is how he look back in time to his forefather that lived on land and how their religion must of been. Then also to just a give a background of his life that relates. How Hawthorne’s attitude towards his former job was like fine but he seemed to be distanced. His fellow workers be described as stranger almost‚ people who didn’t know Hawthorne very well

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    Individual identity‚ society’s expectations‚ and sin are all central themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Gothic Romance‚ The Scarlet Letter. Throughout the novel‚ the reader is introduced to a number of significant characters‚ each motivated by their own ambitions‚ and often driven by the effects of fear and guilt. The majority of the characters in The Scarlet Letter are male‚ but there are a few women who are portrayed‚ and they are generally not respected by society. To fully understand this concept

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    Romanticism In American Literature Dark romanticism is a genre that explores the darker‚ sinful side of man. Within this unit‚ there were a few pieces of literature that I found displays this best. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne are both prominent authors in the world of literature‚ even to this day. The first piece that I will be talking about is “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In describing the midnight ride of Paul Revere‚ Longfellow uses a ton of imagery:

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    Many may believe that Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne do not have many things in common but they are wrong. They both are dark romanticism writers. Dark romanticism is subgenre of romanticism. It is reflecting the madness‚ irrational‚ and grotesque things in the world instead of all the good. In this essay‚ it will talk about more of the similarities Melville and Hawthorne have in common and also go more in detail about each author and their poetry. Herman Melville was born August 1‚ 1819

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    arise throughout the story cause the reader to revisit and question the ambiguity of his morality. Hester’s long lost husband‚ Chillingworth‚ had been living “captive” with Natives and learned their medicinal ways. When he arrives in Boston he realizes his wife is the one being publically scorned for her role in the adultery scandal. He does not want anyone to know he is her long lost husband and so he changes his name and forces Hester to swear she won’t tell anyone who he really is. During this

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    . The tragedies in Poe’s life are reflected in his poem‚ “The Raven‚” and can be predominately seen through the comparison between the loss of his wife‚ and the narrators loss of Lenore. The apparent tone in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” seemingly represents a very painful condition of mind‚ an intellect sensitive to madness and the abyss of melancholy brought upon by the death of a beloved lady. The parallelism of Poe’s own personal problems with those of the narrator in “The Raven‚” and the repetitive

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