Essays on Literary Genres

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Symbols and Flaws in Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2 pages / 853 words

Throughout his works Young Goodman Brown, The Minister’s Black Veil, and The Birth-Mark, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to show that all humans are inherently flawed and are sinful by nature, and teaches the lesson that you can not obsess over it or try to defeat...

Short Story Young Goodman Brown

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The Main Ideas in The "Roger Malvin's Burial" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2 pages / 1085 words

In his short story, “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” Nathaniel Hawthorne explores such fundamental themes as good, evil , sin, family, pride, and penance. However ,from the onset he warns us, “my tale is not of love”(Hawthorne 25). This is instead a tale of the depths of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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Lies and Deceptions of Our World in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

3 pages / 1341 words

There exists an entirely different dimension, where illusion and deception form people’s personalities and rule their lives, and that dimension is exists here, everyday of our own entire lives. We all live lives only according to what is in our own heads. Whether it be...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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The Presence of Laughter in Hawthorne's Works

5 pages / 2439 words

Within Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” and “Young Goodman Brown,” the presence of laughter is used repeatedly across both narratives, often for dramatic effect, showcasing the act’s many facets and qualities. Most typically, laughter is associated with cheer or general happiness. It...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story Young Goodman Brown

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Through The Minds of Characters: Ideas and Problems in Hawthorne's Works

5 pages / 2100 words

Hawthorne marks his characters as potential usurpers of God who are undermined by an inability to negotiate with human chaos. Confronted with examples of imperfection or fragmentation, the scientific minds of “The Birthmark,” “Rappaccini¹s Daughter,” and “Ethan Brand” attempt to efface or fuse flaws as...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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The Idea of Youth in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

2 pages / 774 words

Introduction On the surface, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a story about several troubled adults who are given the chance to relive their youth and enjoy their former, more beautiful selves. However, the idea of youth in this story goes much deeper. Youth is...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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Meaning of Race and Whiteness in "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

11 pages / 4962 words

Critical readings of Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark” tend to focus mainly on Aylmer’s attempt to overpower the hand of God, and the boundaries between science and nature. In the vast array of scholarship on the story, however, little has been said of its racial undercurrent. Written...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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Depiction of The Corrupted Nature of City Life in My Kinsman, Major Molineux

2 pages / 848 words

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” is a tale of opposites and upset expectations. The ideal of the country or rural life is met by the overpowering, even corrupted nature of city life. Robin, the protagonist, the country boy striving to make it...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story

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"The Vegetarian" and "The Tree": a Comparison Characteristics of Death

5 pages / 2464 words

Both Han Kang and Anne Finch present the idea of impending death that cannot be avoided, however, both authors present the ideas in different ways as they are using different forms of writing to do so. In addition, both Kang and Finch use death as...

Novel Poetry

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Glass in Shakespeare’s Sonnet #3

2 pages / 1067 words

The careful craft and design of poetry condenses the amount of text needed to convey information. This is true of all art, in that pieces are often qualitatively judged by how much they “say.” Good works may carry one or two levels of meaning hidden...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147: Analysis

3 pages / 1537 words

Introduction: Sonnet 147 by W. Shakespeare is a poem that is often analyzed for its distinctive style, making it a popular choice for a sonnet 147 analysis essay. The poem follows a specific pattern of metrical structure and verse composition, utilizing extended metaphors throughout. Background:...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare and The Fair Youth: Theme and Relations in Sonnet 35

3 pages / 1224 words

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 35 we delve deeply into Shakespeare’s thoughts, emotions and frustrations with his lover, the young man (the Fair Youth), which was brought about by an apparent betrayal through infidelity. Within this sonnet and those preceding it, we see the progression of a...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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A Refreshing View of Love in Shakespeare's Sonnet Cxvi

2 pages / 981 words

Innumerable poems address the concept of love, with the written battle between positive love and negative love continuing to be waged today. Not surprisingly, there are not, nor would we expect many future poets to write, many poems that juxtapose both the positive and negative...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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Life's Fall: Shakespear's Last Years in Sonnet 73

3 pages / 1343 words

The swelling energy and particularization of imagery of season, time, and light both complement and counter the speaker’s fading body in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73. Moving from metaphors of abstract bleakness to those of specific vitality and passion within and across each quatrain, Shakespeare’s sonnet draws...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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Comparing Petrarch and De La Vega’s Perspective on Love

2 pages / 902 words

“Love found me altogether disarmed,” declares Francis Petrarch in one of his highly acclaimed sonnets, referring of course to his dearly beloved yet unattainable Laura (Petrarch 2068). This is perhaps a bit of an understatement. Both Francis Petrarch and Garcilaso de la Vega found themselves...

Literature Review Poetry

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Literary Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

2 pages / 1129 words

Sonnet Essay Outline Introduction Introduction to the theme of love sonnets in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Mention of Shakespeare’s 130th sonnet and its focus on true love Love vs. Lust Explanation of how Shakespeare distinguishes between love and lust in the sonnet...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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The Ideas of Love and Romance in Sonnets by William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Browning

3 pages / 1247 words

Both ‘How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ explore the ideas of love and romance in the traditional form of a sonnet. Whereas Browning writes about the intense love she felt towards her husband-to-be in Sonnet 43,...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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Love as a Source of Life Shakespeare's Sonnet 29

4 pages / 1904 words

Shakespeare’s iconic sonnet 29 is a sonnet that embodies the superficial nature of humanity, both intrinsically and extrinsically. The sonnet begins with the speaker denouncing his current state, which is quite unfavorable, as he “beweep[s] [his] outcast state” (line 2). However, the speaker continues to...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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Prophetic Voice in William Blake's Poetry

2 pages / 915 words

In “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1793), Blake writes with a strong prophetic voice, bringing forth a new set of proverbs, a new poetics, twisting and flipping traditional wisdom. Blake challenges the status quo, questioning stagnant, conventional thought. As if standing before a gathering...

Poetry William Blake