… religion is what Nathaniel Hawthorne battled with his entire life. Or more accurately, he was obsessed with counter arguing the Puritan's belief that they were without imperfection by creating characters that defied this pompous attitude. "Young…

… of its setting, characters, and plot. The story was set in the late Puritan Era when people were scared of the woods due to the mysterious witches and savage Indians. Puritans really liked true colors such as white and red. If white was worn it…

… Hawthorne contains much symbolism. The symbols take many forms from the setting to the characters. The symbols can be viewed as just part of the story line, but apon further thought they represent many different things. Faith, Brown’s wife,…

… reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ gave the impression that he was trying to portray a central character's loss of faith and spiritual tragedy. Rereading, however, reveals a more complex set of ideas. There were revelations that neith…

… the feeling of being an outsider because she was not the typical woman of her time. She was never married and the people in her town resented her for it. Society had its own schemas, or mental representations of how the world should be, and Emily…

… of writing that shows more imagination and deep feeling that ordinary speech. Poetry is a set of sensual words with deep meaning, but for some reason young people do not appreciate it. Hugh Maclennan states, "For without poetry these youths were…

… aspect of youth and being young is a prevalent aspect found in George Babbitt, the main character of Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt. On the outside, Babbitt comes across as a very conformist and self-serving individual. However, upon further examination,…

… In this section of the text Zarathustra is climbing a mountain and enounters the “Spirit of Gravity” which Zarathustra describes as his devil and archenemy. As he climbs higher up the mountain however a dwarf (which I think is the Spirit of Gravity)…

… god of all gods, consistently maintaining the divine order of things and making known the absolute power he possesses so that his will may be done. This is clearly shown in the epic through the confrontation with his wife, Hera, when she accuses him…

… that a man like Jerry felt lonely. He was without a friend, a mother and father, and the typical “wife, two children, and a dog,” that many others had. Jerry was thrown in a world that he felt did not want him, and his human flaw of wanting to escape…