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- 8301: The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of Symbolism
- The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis of Symbolism The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is generally considered to be the first American symbolic novel. A symbol is something which is used to represent something broader in meaning. The most obvious symbol in the novel is the actual scarlet "A" which both the criticism and I agree upon ...
- 8302: The Natural: Fate
- ... in your sub-conscience, therefore making it nothing more than your conscience. In the book The Natural by Bernard Malamud the main character Roy Hobbs had a very distinct flaw, a flaw that millions of American men and women both have...... an obsession with sex which affected his charecter and which made him a very unsuccessful man. From the very beginning of the book when he went to that woman Harriet ...
- 8303: True Son
- True Son The plot in the story starts with True Son, a white boy who was raised by Indians since he was four years old. A Native American family raised him as their own when their son had died and True son was taken as prisoner. True Son's Indian parents said words that made him an Indian. True Son considered this to ...
- 8304: Foreshadowing and Flashback: Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- ... These two main ingredients in this novel made it possible for the reader to be able to understand Gatsby the way Fitzgerald does. It also helps one to understand Gatsby's relentless pursuit of the American dream. These two elements of the novel were weaved into a great book that was read and adored by millions of readers and school students. Works Cited Eble, Kenneth. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Twayne ...
- 8305: Prejudice in The Color Purple
- ... in the lives of many of these individuals. In The Color Purple, a woman by the name of Ceile was a victim of this horrible prejudice. She was and uneducated woman living in the rural American south. She had been raped by her father, deprived of her children she bore him and was forced into marriage with a brutal man whom she calls Mister. Since her sister was taken from her ...
- 8306: The Scarlet Letter: Background
- The Scarlet Letter: Background Nathaniel Hawthorn started writing The Scarlet Letter in 1847 and it was published in 1850. The Scarlet Letter is recognize by many "critics as being one of the greatest of American novels."1 Hawthorn created his own individual style of "romance," a style of writing. His own individual style of writing is now called "Hawthorn's Theory of Romance". His "theory of Romance" is emphasized in ...
- 8307: An Analysis of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Devil and Tom Walker
- An Analysis of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to write any kind of fantasy story or writing. At first he tried to pass his stories as real life accounts found in a dead mans dresser. The start of one states that it ...
- 8308: Resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities
- ... forces of evil mimic or parody the resurrection theme. This is shown twice in the novel. Old Foulon, the evil French aristocrat, fakes his own death so that he will not be slaughtered by the revolution. He is found later, alive, and is murdered anyway. This pattern of false death and false resurrection is also followed by Roger Cly. He too is evil, faking his death and being "reborn" as a ...
- 8309: The Growing Popularity of Computers
- ... can do your taxes, surf the Web, write letters, e-mail friends, play games, plan a business, buy a car, do your homework... in fact, do whatever you want. The PC has given the average American the kind of computing power that 10 years ago was found only in large corporations. Yet people now take this for granted -- and want more. They want to do many of the things they can ...
- 8310: NATIONAL MORALITY IN HAWTHORNE
- ... determines the appropriate punishment just as Hawthorne advocates. Hester follows the same self-judgment and sentences herself with retribution of a life filled with charity. Moreover though, Hester Prynne is the embodiment of the purely American dream of life in the new worlds wilderness, and the self-reliant action that is necessary to attain such an ideal (Carpenter, 47).
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