… insight, true love, untrue love, self-hate, sin, and redemption, could Nathaniel Hawthorne have possibly juggled with more ideas while recording The Scarlet Letter? The answer is yes. In contrast to the book's countless appeals to our emotions…

… DEATH? In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Jemshed A. Khan claims that Roger Chillingworth poisoned Arthur Dimmesdale with the drug atropine in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Certainly, Chillingworth was “a man of skill in all…

… SEPTEMBER, 1792 chapter 1 A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The…

… daughter of a respected lawyer named Atticus. With her older brother Jem, she enjoys participating in many activities which are mainly masculine ones. Without a mother to teach her the ways of a woman, she lives as a tomboy (much to the displeasure…

… in The Scarlet Letter is that of the secret. The plot of the book is centered around Hester Prynne’s secret sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne draws striking parallelism between secrets held and the physical and mental states of those who hold them.…

… and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers who's misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own fall. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives.…

… protagonist is a character by the name of Willy Loman. Willy suffers from self-delusion and is obsessed with a desire to succeed. Willy’s family is strongly influenced by his actions, which contributes to their own self-delusions. Willy has an extreme…

… given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question" (Morrison 39). Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye depicts the disastrous affects that racism had on African Americans during the mid nineteen hundreds.…

… the struggles of the Dashwood daughters when they are left with little money after their father dies. The lack of any kind of dowry leaves the future marital status of the girls uncertain. However marriage looks hopeful for Marianne when she meets…

… many metaphors to give the reader a better understanding of the play. Many of the metaphors used are woven into the play many times and revolve around the same theme. One such metaphor the Shakespeare used on occasion was that of plants growing and…