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A Girls Right of Passage in a Latina’s Journey to Womanhood by Mary Lankford (649 words, 3 pages)

It has been known that when girls, as well as boys reach a certain age they make a transition from childhood to adulthood. This type of transition may also be called a right of passage, which signifies a person is ready to move into a new stage in their lives. ... Read More

Analysing the Symbols and Imagery in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2487 words, 5 pages)

The Neurosis of Nathaniel HawthorneThe influence of Freuds theory of the dynamics of human personality extends far beyond the discipline of behavioral science, reaching into areas such as humanities, philosophy, and literature. Freud believed that a work of literature is the external expression of the authors unconscious mind. Therefore, we ... Read More

The Traditional Role of Mothers Narrated in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, “The Boarding House” by James Joyce, and “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen (2107 words, 3 pages)

The discussion about our mother always evokes strong emotions in us. And it should! After all, we lived in her womb for nine months even before we experienced the light of this world. When we try to explain to others what she means to us, or what a mother should ... Read More

An Analysis of the Allegories in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2420 words, 3 pages)

The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his ... Read More

Concept of Alienation in Young Goodman Brown, the Minister’s Black Veil, and the Birth Mark (1819 words, 2 pages)

Nathaniel Hawthorn was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804 during Puritan times. He created many stories that reflect his life experiences growing up as a Puritan. He writes stories that end with a moral that was learned through the struggles of the characters. These characters are almost always faced with ... Read More

The Theme of Faith in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2412 words, 3 pages)

Having Faith"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is full of allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story, which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in him interfere ... Read More

Characters Versus Community in O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephan Crane (1340 words, 3 pages)

Characters versus CommunityLisa FailsApril 11, 2001Literature 421762381Characters versus CommunityIn the novel O Pioneers! the author Willa Cathers vision of Alexandra Bergson is consistent in character treatment with other authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter), and Stephan Crane (Maggie A Girl of the Streets). In each novel, all authors possess ... Read More

The Correlation Between T.S Eliot’s Works “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and “The Fire Sermon” (1717 words, 3 pages)

Brianna LuskCasterPaper 1Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and ?The Fire Sermon?No one ever questioned T.S. Eliot as to whether or not he is a human being. Harriet Jacobs is just as much of a person, but looked down upon as a possession, as an animal. T.S. Eliot ... Read More

An Analysis of Young Goodman Brown, a Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1694 words, 2 pages)

Faith or Destiny Nathaniel Hawthorne made his mark as a major American writer in 1850, with the publication of The Scarlet Letter. His work appeals to different levels of readers because he creates complex and elaborate settings. Through conflicts within his characters, he analyzes the moral and psychological issues often ... Read More

An Analysis of Blake’s Poems: The Little Girl Lost and the Little Girl Found (1168 words, 2 pages)

The Little Girl Lost The Little Girl FoundV. Propps essay Morphology of the Folktale (Rivkin Ryan, p. 28) is perfectly suitable when analyzing Blakes poems, The Little Girl Lost and The Little Girl Found. Propp discusses the function of the dramatic personae and its applicability to stories that run their ... Read More

The Symbolisms of Sin in Young Goodman Brown, Fall of the House of Usher and Rip Van Winkle (1439 words, 2 pages)

In the early eighteen hundreds, literature in the Americas started a revolution of style in upcoming authors. Authors started to look towards nature for symbolism and society as a source of sin. The underlined meaning in most of these stories was meant to leave the reader with a new perspective ... Read More

Review on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1170 words, 2 pages)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlIn her essay, Loopholes of Resistance, Michelle Burnham argues that Aunt Marthys garret does not offer a retreat from the oppressive conditions of slavery as, one might argue, the communal life in Aunt Marthys house does so much as it enacts a repetition ... Read More

Schools as Mechanisms for Indoctrination of the Young (4757 words, 15 pages)

Literacy for cultural reproduction uses institutional mechanisms to undermine independent thought, a prerequisite for the Orwellian "manufacture of consent" or "engineering of consent." In this light, schools are seen as the ideological institutions designed to prevent the so-called crisis of democracy, another Orwellian concept, meaning the beginnings of democracy....... In ... Read More

An Analysis of Inquisitive and Self-Directed Learning in Young Children (1872 words, 4 pages)

Inquisitive and self-directed learning is a natural behavior for young children. They marvel at each new discovery and strive to understand the meaning behind every question in their world. However, older children seem to be resistant to learning unless directed by teachers or parents with various forms of external recognition ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of the Use of the Theme Self-Reliance in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Samuel Clemens’ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1097 words, 2 pages)

Self-reliance.I will, in the following, discuss the theme of self-reliance in the above-mentioned texts. But what exactly is self-reliance? In his 1841 publication called Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson includes an essay simply entitled Self-Reliance in which he states Trust thyselfGreat men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to ... Read More

An Analysis of Advertisements in Seventeen a Young Women’s Magazine (1099 words, 2 pages)

The female in the Durex Condom commercial moans with excitement as she is being pleasured with the all new and improved ribbed condom, meanwhile, the male consumers across the United States drop everything to drool over her seductive voice over the air waves. By giving form to peoples deep lying ... Read More

The ramifications of the West in The Girl at Cabe Ranch (1034 words, 2 pages)

The Ramifications of the WestThe Girl at Cabe Ranch focuses on three main characters, Harris, Sidonie Cabe, and Dr. Powell, whom all associate themselves to the West. Whether it is by living environment or by hometown, each identifies with the western lifestyle. Not only can Harris relate to the Wests ... Read More

A Comparison of Mary Pipher’s Saplings in the Storm and William S. Pollack’s How U.S. Schools Are Stifling Male Students in Improving the Lives of Young Children (984 words, 2 pages)

Mary Pipher's "Saplings in the Storm" and William S. Pollack's "How U.S. Schools Are Stifling Male Students" are two writers that are very different but at the same time striving to get to the same goal which is to improve the lives of young children. They go about getting the ... Read More

A Critical Analysis of Kincaid’s Story “Girl” (1033 words, 3 pages)

Ask yourselves these questions before you read Kincaids Girl, Do you know what a housewife is, being a student or child, getting advice from an elder, and being called something that you are not? What is this story's about is it a story at all or just a poem in ... Read More

Losing Faith in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1029 words, 2 pages)

Elizabeth Van FlueEnglish 200April 7, 1999"Losing Faith"Throughout the short story "Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character is searching for Faith in what appears to be an increasingly corrupt world. Faith takes on a double meaning in this story, for Faith is used both as the name ... Read More

The Chinese Girl’s Life in America as Described in the Memoir “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Sing” (885 words, 4 pages)

In the memoir The Girl Who Wouldnt Sing, Kit Yuen Quandescribes her life experiences growing up as a Chinese girl in America.In her attempt to try and find her place in society, Quan intermingleswith several groups of people. Her interactions with a feminist group,two young Cambodian girls, and finally her ... Read More

A Comparison Between Girl’s Sports and Boy’s Sports (482 words, 1 pages)

Girls Sports vs. Boys SportsI am a 16-year-old female athlete at Branford High School. I am a goalkeeper for the soccer team at school and have played number one doubles my freshman year for the Varsity Tennis Team. In past years I have played Field Hockey, Basketball, Softball, and swimming. ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1956 words, 4 pages)

Losing FaithIn Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown is tempted bythe evil that surrounds him and he must keep his faith in order to resist it. The use of the events,characters, and symbols throughout the story show that evil is present in the people of the townin which ... Read More

"Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of all!" Good old days when women were the ones standing in front of the mirror for hours dressing. Women used to spend so much time making their hair, makeup, and dress look perfect just to please their men who were ... Read More

The Concept of Nature and Freedom Exemplified by Chris McCandless and Gordon Young (848 words, 1 pages)

Although precisely on target in his assessment of Chris McCandless being "in touch with the bare-bones essence of nature", Gordon Young's preceding description of Chris should be rephrased A profoundly Un-American figure, uncompromising in his approach and thoroughly optimistic about the future. For Chris McCandless did not set out to ... Read More

The Portrayal of Girls and Confidence in Thornton Wilder’s Play “Our Town” (1474 words, 3 pages)

Most people try to forget the past especially the bad things. When you look back you think of all the good that there was, but with the play Our Town it makes you think back to that one time when you ask your mother how pretty you are and the ... Read More

An Analysis of Faith in Young Goodman Brown (799 words, 3 pages)

The story Young Goodman Brown is about a man and his faith in himself,his wife, and the community they reside in. Goodman Brown must venture on a journeyinto the local forest refuse the temptations of the devil and return to the village beforesunrise. The time era is approximately a generation ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbolisms Used in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (715 words, 4 pages)

young goodman brown Young Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown by NathanielHawthorne contains much symbolism. The symbols take many formsfrom the setting to the characters. The symbols can be viewed asjust part of the story line, but apon further thought theyrepresent many different things. Faith, Browns wife, is asymbol herself. When ... Read More

A Comparison of Symbolic Aspects of the Protagonists in The Metamorphosis by Kafka and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (637 words, 2 pages)

So often characters in fiction can be traced back to a symbolic archetype, be it Biblical, mythological or psychological. In Kafka's The Metamorphosis and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, this is also true. In this essay I will explore the symbolic aspects of the ... Read More

The Use of Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” (708 words, 1 pages)

Jessie ReedEnglish 253September 19, 2001Symbolism in Young Goodman BrownNathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown is full of symbolism throughout the story. Perhaps the most interesting examples of symbolism include the title character, Young Goodman Brown, as well as his wife, Faith, and the woods that Young Goodman Brown enters on his ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013