Young Goodman Brown

Silas Marner Chapter Log Chapter One: Silas Marner, a highly religious weaver, is introduced as a man living in solitude in a town called Raveloe. In a brief description of Marner’s past, it is revealed that Silas was wrongfully convicted of the murder of the Church of Lantern Yard’s Deacon. After his wrongful conviction, all ties to his closest friends, his fiancee, and his church were severed and he left Lantern Yard. Chapter Two: Marner’s new life in Raveloe is very different from his life…

In “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl provides the typical, yet effective concepts of using unfamiliar surroundings, psychic abilities, and cyanide to create suspense for the reader. Dahl has Billy Weaver, a young 17 year-old, traveling alone and arriving in Bath, England, a city unfamiliar to him. While searching for a place to stay for the night, he passes numerous decaying streets. “But now, even in the darkness, he could see that the paint was peeling from the woodwork on their doors and windows,…

everyman figure that many can relate to, making the story more engaging as well as interesting with many different layers. The point of view of the lawyer is one that is still analysed today over 150 years after being written. In comparison Carey’s young boy attempts to include other perspectives in his narrative and Carey uses his point of view to show the conflict between reality and representation, a theme echoed throughout the story. Both authors use the tool of narration in different ways…

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1800s, but the book is placed in the Puritan times of the 1600s. Hawthorne is an anti-transcendentalist, which means he thinks society is good and nature is evil and humans are naturally evil. Puritanism is a very strict religion in the 1600s. If you are a Puritan you are against all earthly pleasure and your life is hell on Earth. Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols to represent ideas. In this novel, The Scarlet Letter,…

The Scarlet Letter: Prompt 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson were among a group of authors known as the Romantics that valued feeling over reason, imagination over science, and nature over civilization. These ideals are commonly displayed in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Like any writers of the same time period, Hawthorne and Emerson may have never completely accepted each other's beliefs, however the characters that Hawthorne creates agree with Emerson’s advice, “[d]o not go where…

In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy outlines a gray desolate story about and man and his son travelling a road riddled with macabre obstacles to reach the Southern Coast. The man and the boy begin travelling because it will soon be winter, and winter will be especially inclement, the world is covered in ash, which creates a dark blanket over the Earth. For, before the birth of the boy a never identified catastrophe ravaged the earth with fire, leaving few…

Author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in an excerpt from his novel, “Egotism; or The Bosom Serpent,” recounts a puzzling condition that Roderick Elliston suffers from. Hawthorne’s purpose is to convey the idea that, love can also be a force of destruction that brings harm to the people who express it. He adopts a despairing tone through the use simile, repetition, and imagery which appeals to the emotions of the readers and supports Hawthorne’s purpose. Hawthorne begins his excerpt by addressing the…

Ronit Shrem Hawthorne’s View of Puritanism Through the Black Veil “The Minister’s Black Veil”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American fiction novelist and short story writer, uses the symbol of the black veil to convey his view of the puritan religion. The Milford minister and reverend, Mr. Hooper, wear a black veil that represents the puritan religion ridding the joy out of life. Additionally, the minister’s veil symbolizes the townspeople’s sins, in which they try to conceal…

[Thesis]: Hawthorne explores the paradoxical views of society about fate, sin, and redemption using the Puritan town’s dependency on Hester Prynne as their scapegoat as a hyperbolic mirror of human nature. By using the scarlet letter as a vehicle to reflect changing public interpretation and perception, Hawthorne emphasizes how the despised manifestation of sin on whom the townspeople project sin can often be the model of a hardworking, moral individual. [Po1]: [Topic Sentence1(Romanticism…

The essay consists of the traits of how the characters are archetypes. Archetypes are a recurring symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. Irving shows the heroism and greed in Tom Walker as he accepts the deal with the devil. In Washington Irving’ short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” the characters Tom Walker and The Devil are archetypes, by showing the greed, and heroism behavior. In the short story the character Tom Walker is the main character that shows greediness by accepting…