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    Loves Fatal Flaw In the short story‚ “The Birth-mark‚” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ a mad scientist named Aylmer leaves his experiments behind in hopes of marrying the beautiful‚ nearly perfect‚ Georgiana. Georgiana is admired by everyone for her beauty‚ but she has one very noticeable flaw- a birthmark in the shape of a hand on her left check. Being the scientist Aylmer is said to be‚ he tells his newly acquired wife that even though she is happy with the way she looks‚ he wants to try and use

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    Internally Sinned Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ one of the leading American novelists and short story writers‚ used sin as a recurring theme in his works. Merriam Webster defines sin as an offense against religious or moral law. Hawthorne believed everyone had some type of sin in his or her “soul.” In his works‚ Hawthorne makes it clear to his readers that a sin is an act of evil but the true definition of a sin is ones response to the sin. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne is able to exemplify

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    that is not the case when it comes to Nathaniel Anthony Ayers. Mr. Ayers is a homeless man with schizophrenia. He did not want help from anyone‚ including Steve Lopez. Steve Lopez is a man who simply came across Nathaniel on the streets playing a violin with only two strings. Nathaniel went to Juilliard and played the bass. Mr. Lopez wrote a novel based off of his experience with Mr. Ayers. They soon made it into an award winning film. The novel version of Nathaniel and the film version were very similar

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    Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about one man’s journey into the woods of Salem Village. When reading this story‚ the audience may experience many moods that correlate with gothic‚ or dark‚ literature. Hawthorne crafts scenes that create a sense of sadness‚ urgency‚ suspicion‚ fear‚ confusion‚ and suspense to accentuate the eeriness that lies22 within the settings. In paragraphs one through four‚ the audience is introduced to Goodman Brown and his wife Faith. When Faith asked

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    Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author uses characterization to describe Hester Prynne. Hester Prynne was a very tall and elegant woman. Nathaniel Hawthorne states‚ “She had dark and abundant hair‚ so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam‚ and a face which‚ besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion…and

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    punished with the agonising fate of wearing her shame until the end of her days. This punishment is incorrect for the time period at which Hawthorne places his Salem. This shows how Hawthorne disagrees with Puritanical doctrine. This then shows how the time period has an affect on the people in Hawthorne’s Salem due to the Puritanical views they and Hawthorne had. Moreover‚ the forest is looked at as both a place of evil and a place of secrecy. In Puritanical society the forest is where satanists

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    English Protestants voyaged across seas in search of better land to start a new life; they settled in the recently discovered New World. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the struggle of a young woman‚ Hester Prynne‚ and her sinful reputation as an adulteress. Coming to New England unaccompanied by her estranged husband Roger Chillingworth‚ she felt alone and in need of someone‚ which resulted in great consequences for her lover‚ Minister Dimmesdale and their daughter‚ Pearl. Hester

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    Prynne has to undergo the ordeal of penance in a Puritan society that harshly condemns adultery. One can see here the atmosphere of violence she is plunged into. More generally‚ or rather more specifically‚ violence is present on various levels in this story: it manifests itself in the Puritan society‚ to which the notion of gaze is intimately connected‚ but also in the very minds of the characters who are haunted by their guilt‚ or even in Pearl’s character in its complete opposition to the stern and

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    ENGLISH LITERATURE- PROSE: DR HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMENT Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is a study on the frailties of humanity and the mistakes that the youth is bound to make‚ even backed by the experience and maturity of a lifetime. It is a dark comedy‚ as it makes one cynical‚ as well as meditative. The comedy is not pure but is interpreted with black humour‚ showing the weakness of mankind. In this story Dr. Heidegger is not just a doctor or a magician‚ but also a psychologist

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    To understand how the character of Hester Prynne was created one has to understand the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own Puritan family heritage. He was the third great grandson of the unyielding Puritan William Hathorne. This ancestry has a direct influence on the context of The Scarlet Letter and how Nathanial Hawthorne portrayed the characters. In 17th century Boston there is a strict hierarchy held in the village and the rule was strictly Puritanical‚ with harsh laws and severe religious

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