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The Simplicity of the Characters in the Play Our Town by Thorton Wilder (307 words, 2 pages)

Our TownThe truth in this play by Thorton Wilder is actually quite simple,live your life the way you would want to be able to see it from above .This play is probably the single most easy play to follow . for any one. I think Our Town is so easy ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Literature by Henry David Thoreau (1259 words, 2 pages)

I heartily accept the motto, That government is best when it governs least. , is a classic line brought into the readers thoughts by Henry David Thoreau, contained within his classic literary work entitled Civil Disobedience . In the confines of this relatively short work, he compacts his ideas, philosophies, ... Read More

The Theme of Christian Morality in the Play Our Town by Thornton Wilder (571 words, 1 pages)

Thornton Wilder was one of the America s greatest writers of all time. Thought of as a star of the first magnitude unusually versatile, original, and clever. (Phelps 2881). He brought small town life in America to theatres with his play Our Town. Wilder expressed many values in his work ... Read More

An Analysis of the Thoreau’s Main Idea of Luxuries of Life (280 words, 1 pages)

As I sit in front of the computer typing this essay I can only think of how Thoreau s ideas seemed flawed. Word processing programs on the computer have greatly decreased the time needed to create a document. I can write faster and more legibly with a word processor than ... Read More

The Use of Double-Sided Symbols in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (307 words, 1 pages)

In the novel, "The Scarlet Letter", Nathanial Hawthorne uses many double-sided symbols. The scaffold is an important symbol, appearing in three key scenes. It epitomizes the three stages of the story, as the second appearance of the scaffold is one of the many climaxes in the story.Appearing in the first ... Read More

An Analysis of the Guilt in The Scarlet Letter Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2780 words, 5 pages)

Guilt in The Scarlet LetterGenerally, guilt would be expected to weaken one s character however, in some cases, it can actually strengthen one s character. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale both experience guilt for their sin of adultery. An illegitimate child results from their sin, and since Hester ... Read More

The Power of Conscience in The Scarlet Letter, a Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1110 words, 2 pages)

The Conscience s Roll in Dealing with Guilt and ShameWhat power the conscience holds, as it can, will bring a person to his doom. Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the main characters, Reverend Dimmesdale, expresses his feeling of guilt best by his action. The ... Read More

A Biography of Stephen King, an American Horror Author (2299 words, 3 pages)

Stephen King is a very well known writer who wrote many best-selling books. He wrote both horror and drama books, but even the drama books seemed to have a disturbing edge to them. Stephen Kings mind is probably very twisted yet very interesting judging by the stories he wrote. His ... Read More

An Analysis of Billy Bathgate, a Novel by Author E. L. Doctorow (2031 words, 3 pages)

Billy BathgateBilly Bathgate, is a book of a young boy s transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts out in Billy s hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties a time of social unrest and prohibition. The ... Read More

The Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter, a Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1818 words, 2 pages)

Ambiguity and The Scarlet Letter go better together than two people that have been happily married for 75 years. There is no exemption in Hawthorne s exquisite symbolism of one of his main characters, Pearl. The Scarlet Letter A, worn by Hester Prynne, was a punishment for the immoral sin ... Read More

A Biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, a Russian Author (7189 words, 12 pages)

Alfred Einstein stated "Dostoevsky gives me more than any other thinker."1 Nicholas Berdyaev was professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow until he was expelled by the Communist regime in 1922. Berdyaev testified that Dostoevsky "stirred and lifted up my soul more than any other writer or philosopher has ... Read More

A Biography of J. D. Salinger, an American Author (1897 words, 3 pages)

J. D. Salinger s life shows an uncanny resemblance to his literature. Even within his most well known, and most socially accepted piece, The Catcher In The Rye, there are hints of his life. The simplest plot in the book resembled Slinger s own life to a tee. Salinger s ... Read More

Author’s Analyzation on His Existential Beliefs Concerning the Reasons for Human Existence in a Clean Well Lighted Place (1098 words, 3 pages)

In the short story, A Clean Well Lighted Place , Hemingway explores his existential beliefs concerning the reasons for human existence. He sets the story during the Spanish civil war and employs three characters to communicate his views. In the story Hemingway espouses his belief that human beings should not ... Read More

Female Authors and the Portrayal of Women (1907 words, 6 pages)

Female Authors and the Portrayal of WomenIn writing, each individual has a unique style one that they can call their own. The kind of style and the quality of the story is what separates a good writer from an extraordinary writer. As part of my research process, I have read ... Read More

The Victims of Slavery in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1048 words, 3 pages)

"Slavery"All of the characters in The Scarlet Letter were victims of some kind of slavery. The whole town of Boston, Massachusetts was made up of Puritans. They were very religious people and religion was basically their life. They worshiped God, the church and the reverend because they considered him the ... Read More

Analysis of 1984, a Dystopian Novel by English Author George Orwell (974 words, 2 pages)

In 1984, George Orwell writes of a totalitarian society that has manipulated its followers while rewriting the past. Orwell writes of technology that abolishes privacy and is the cause of perpetual fear. This technology is referred to as telescreens. The party of Big Brother controls this technology and controls the ... Read More

The Balance Between Good and Evil – An Analysis of Lord of the Flies, a Dystopian Novel by English Author William Golding (1176 words, 3 pages)

Mattie Elizabeth MilanoThe Balance Between Good and EvilGeorge Orwell, an author of many novels, once stated that, Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." This is evident in Sir William Golding s 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies. A ... Read More

Theme of Freedom in The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, a Novel by American Author Mark Twain (1162 words, 5 pages)

FreedomThe theme of freedom surfaces frequently in the book The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. Throughout the book, the most obvious controversy about freedom isJim s situation. This type of freedom though important, is not the type I will discussing. The freedom I am analyzing is Huck s freedom from several different ... Read More

Analysis of Animal Farm, an Allegorical and Dystopian Novella by English Author George Orwell (790 words, 2 pages)

Orwell, George. Animal Farm.(Not available US) Gordon Heath Publishing, 1955.Losing The Religion- Animal farm is a social, but chiefly political, satire. This book appears to address totalitarian governments in the whole, but Ive heard Mr. Orwell was specifically referring to the 1917 Russian Revolution. This book is written in somewhat ... Read More

An Analysis of Meridian, A Novel by American Author Alice Walker (250 words, 2 pages)

Meridian is set in the American South during the 1960s and early '70s.The heroine, Meridian, is a black woman from a southern town. Shemarries, has a child, gets a divorce, sends her child away, and ends upworking in a voters' registration campaign, encouragingAfrican-Americans to register. Meridian is different from her ... Read More

Analysis of Out of Dust, a Verse Novel by American Author Karen Hesse (936 words, 2 pages)

Out of the DustWritten by Karen HesseBillie Jo is the main character in this book and also my favourite character. She is basically the one that tells the story. It is as if she writes poetry and makes a book of it or tells a story through her poetry. Billie ... Read More

The Portrayal of Puritan Society in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1123 words, 5 pages)

Hawthorne's Puritan SocietyIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge hisor her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up until ... Read More

A Dramatic Representation of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (462 words, 1 pages)

In "The Scarlet Letter" , Nathaniel Hawthorne presents this novel in a dramatic point of view, starting with the scene of the prison. Hester is displayed as an adulterous woman in a Puritan society, where sin is harshly accounted for. She is forced to wear her badge of shame throughout ... Read More

The Consequences of Negative Actions in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (662 words, 1 pages)

Reader Response EssayNathaniel Hawthorne, relative of the cruel Judge Hathorne, set out to write a novel about the consequence of sin. The main theme that I brought from Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, was that there are consequences for negative actions, and doing good can yield positive results. This ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Play Our Town by Thornton Wilder (547 words, 1 pages)

Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, is a play that presents the most simple aspects of life. "That s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those. . . of those about ... Read More

A Comparison of the Essay Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreauu (585 words, 1 pages)

In Ralph Waldo Emerson s essay Self Reliance and Henry David Thoreau s essay Resistance to Civil Government ( Civil Disobedience ), both transcendentalist thinkers speak about being individual and what reforms and changes need to be made in our society. However, the two essays differ in their idea of ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Epic Poem Beowulf Written by an Unknown Anglo Saxon Author (416 words, 1 pages)

The epic poem Beowulf was written by an unknown Anglo-Saxon author in the 8th century. Many scholars have seen fit to analyze the theme of the poem. David Wright stated that the theme of the epic poem, Beowulf, was the conflict between good and evil. This is conflict is demonstrated ... Read More

An Analysis of Young Goodman Brown, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (488 words, 1 pages)

Matt HamacherYOUNG GOODMAN BROWNThis story is one that is well-written while at the same time one that makes you think. We observe the main character, Goodman Brown, a somewhat common man, go from seeking goodness and perfection to the exact opposite ending up in total failure and alienating himself from ... Read More

A Biography o Edgar Allan Poe, an American Author (3074 words, 4 pages)

Through Edgar Allan Poe's magnificent style of writing, he provided the world with some of the most mystifying poems and short stories. Although not appreciated during his time, Poe has gained considerable recognition after his death. James Russel Lowell stated, in a book by Louis Broussard, "He combines in a ... Read More

The Character of Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter, a Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1059 words, 2 pages)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel full of character study and definition. Hawthorne attempts to discover the effects of sin upon the human mind. With Arthur Dimmesdale, Hawthorne pursues what effects unconfessed sin has on the mind and body. It is clear to see that by not ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013