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Melville and Hawthorne: Explorations of Humanity., 2002.
Comparison of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Melville's "Bartelby, the Scrivener."
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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"Young Goodman Brown" is a story of initiation. What Goodman Brown sees in the forest persuades as well as forces him to question. Evil is the nature of mankind. Melville's "Bartelby, the Scrivener" presents an ideal example of this in relation to conformity, non rebellion, and man vs. society. Bartelby is an exaggerated reflection of the Boss, embodying manifested urges. Bartelby is the extreme, absolutist reflection of the Boss's penchant for avoidance. Melville's "Bartelby, the Scrivener" contains mirror imagery that illustrates extremes in the protagonists' personalities. The difference lies in the Boss's ability to learn from Bartelby.
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Hawthorne and Melville, 1995.
Compares the use of allegory, symbolism and typology in these American writers' stories and novels.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 79.95
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"Writers have a number of literary traditions and tools of language at their disposal, and each will shape these much-used elements to fit their own specific themes and interests. Among the methods used are those which make language and character serve the task of representing ideas, the clash of ideas, and the power of imagery to represent ideas. Allegory is a way of shaping a story so that the characters and the setting are developed so as to have both a literal meaning on the primary level and a secondary meaning on the next level. Symbolism is the use of the literary symbol, or the use of an object so that the attributes of the object become a substitute for some idea or entity with special significance. Typology is subtly different from symbolism and is in fact often used as a synonym for symbolism, but it refers more specifically to the representation ..."
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"The Marble Faun" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and " Billy Budd" by Herman Melville, 1994.
A contrast of the nature and development of the main characters (Donatello and Billy) and the themes (long-term spiritual growth vs. sudden forgiveness in world of evil and violence).
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will contrast the main characters (Donatello vs. Billy) and themes (long-term spiritual growth vs. sudden forgiveness) from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Herman Melville's Billy Budd. Both books deal with acts of violence---sudden murders by Billy and Donatello---and both books deal with the changes that those murders bring to the main character. This study will focus on the differences in the ways the two authors explore spiritual change and growth.
The first major difference between Donatello and Billy Budd is that Billy is described as being an angel-like or even Christ-like figure, while Donatello is described as half-man and half-faun. This difference is important because it affects the way the two characters develop.
Hawthorne compares Donatello with the statue of the Faun, a..."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2001.
An analysis of the life and works of this American writer.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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In this paper the author analyzes and examines Nathaniel Hawthorne; his life, career, contributions, and works. The author contends that the moral and psychological issues that Hawthorne examines, through the conflicts his characters experience, are often intricate and mysterious and furthermore, that Hawthorne skillfully creates an atmosphere of ambiguity and complexity that makes it difficult to reduce his writings to a simple view of life.
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?Hawthorne then moved to Lennox, Massachusetts, where they lived for the following year. It was here that Hawthorne made the acquaintance of Herman Melville, who was writing his first novel, Moby Dick. Hawthorne greatly impacted Melville?s writings, and the dedication of Moby Dick to Hawthorne is evidence of the magnitude of this impact.?
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Romance in Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter", 2000.
Examines the genre of romantic literature, specifically through Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter". Hawthorne's definitions of romance are used to evaluate the novel. Other literary criticisms of the work are also examined
2,295 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 1 source, $ 70.95
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Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most authentic voices on the genre of romance in the history of American Literature. This paper examines his definitions of what makes a romance and evaluates "Rappaccini?s Daughter" to try and decide whether or not it fulfills Hawthorne?s own requirements.
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?Romance, ahhh, sweet Romance. The word conjures up visions of valiant knights battling horrifying dragons to save strikingly beautiful maidens, of wine, candlelight and roses, of heated love affairs between two people brought together by destiny yet forbidden by society to carry out this twist of Fate, of the magical experiences of love that all of us fantasize about. But is this what romance is? Perhaps all of these visions fall into the category of romance, but they certainly cannot define it fully.?
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Herman Melville: Influences that Made the Man and His Writing, 2006.
An examination of the life and works of Herman Melville.
2,088 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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In this paper the author looks at the life and works of Herman Melville. The paper focuses on Melville's personal experiences in life combined with his unique literary style and vision, making him, in the author's opinion, the creator of novels that are considered to be some of the greatest in American history. The paper starts with a look at Melville's early life from childhood through to adolescent and how the experiences he had, shaped him for the future. The paper then explores the writing techniques that Melville used in his story telling and the attitudes to his books at the time they were written. The paper concludes that Melville was one of the greatest authors in American history even though at the time of his writing he may not have been truly appreciated.
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"Melville's writing reflects a tremendous number of influences. He incorporates character types, allusions, philosophy, and much more from the great thinkers of his day and from those who came before them. Some of his contemporaries were Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a good friend, and transcendental thinkers such as Thoreau and Emerson. Whitman was another contemporary influence. Melville also read Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Edmund Spenser. The evidence of these writers is found in Biblical, philosophical and literary allusions throughout his novels (DelFattore 1913)."
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American Literature, 2004.
An analysis of the perverse preoccupation with humanity's evil through a discussion of the works of Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, and Dickinson.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper contends that, through literature, writers subjectively interpret their realities as they experience and perceive them, expressing these realities to other people in the form of prose or poem. The paper discusses and analyzes these subjective realities and feelings about human life in the works of Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson.
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"Melville is not alone in his analysis of Hawthorne's works. Hawthorne himself describes his writing and being a writer as an "...attempt to connect a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us....pure and uncontrollable mischief...the folly of tumbling down...until an accumulated mass shall be scattered abroad in its original atoms." This passage from the preface of Hawthorne's novel "The House of the Seven Gables" brings into lucidity the fact that humanity, stripped of its conventions and norms of morality, shall "tumble down" and be "scattered...in its original atoms"-that is, humanity shall return to its most natural state, a condition wherein human mind and behavior has no limits, wherein death and insanity is preferred over life and sanity."
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Melville's Attacks on Oppressive Social Codes, 2005.
A discussion on Herman Melville's strategies to attack the oppressive social codes, stereotypes and values of the America of his times, through four of his texts.
4,124 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper shows how Herman Melville critiqued the social values of his time. In works such as 'Bartleby', 'Benito Cereno', 'Moby Dick' and 'Redburn,' Melville offers very powerful social critiques in covert ways, as he enjoyed playing around with his readers. The paper shows that sometimes Melville seemed to be in favor of something when in reality he was against it and vice versa. Melville could not be direct on his condemnations of slavery, stereotyping and oppressive social codes. Instead, the paper shows, he opted for a more subtle way to express his opinions; playing with his reader's point of view without them even noticing.
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Introduction
Resistance against Oppression and its Consequences
Masculinity as a Strong American Value
America's Idyllic Affair with Europe
Racism, Stereotypes and Melville's Condemnation of Slavery
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"Herman Melville critiqued the social values of his time in a very slight and restrained manner. The only work, perhaps, that clearly and directly attacks slavery is "Benito Cereno"; however it is worth to state that "Bartleby", "Moby Dick" and "Redburn" also offer very powerful social critiques in underground ways. In Benito Cereno and Bartleby, for example, Melville presents an alternative to fight oppression: rebellion; as he criticizes the institutions of labor and slavery, Melville shows the pros and consequences of resistance against oppression. Melville also enjoyed playing around with his readers' values and ideals. In "Redburn" and "Moby-Dick," he portrays the American ideal of Masculinity and how hard life is for those who live outside such ideal. He also depicts the relationship between America and its past, Europe, as an idyllic affair. Finally Melville makes a mockery out of the American thoughts on race and attacks slavery in works such as "Benito Cereno," "Moby- Dick" and "Redburn.""
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2002.
Analyzes the themes, particularly that of initiation, of three stories by American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, into an old Puritan family. Hawthorne's own 17th-century ancestors, as he frankly admitted, had been among the real-life Puritan zealots. "Young Goodman Brown" is a story of initiation. Evil is the nature of mankind. "Rappaccini's Daughter" is filled with symbols and symbolic allusions of both Hawthorne's time and his ancestral past. It serves to point up the significant contrast between Dante's Beatrice and Rappaccini's daughter Beatrice. Hawthorne repeatedly and with gentle irony characterizes Robin as "a shrewd youth." The religious polemic is the standard form of Hawthorne's writing. "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" blends yet another theme of initiation into the sobering responsibilities of adulthood with the historical movement of the American colonists in defiance of royal authority.
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Influence of Puritan Writers on Hawthorne, 1990.
This paper reviews the influence of Puritan writers on Nathaniel Hawthorne and discusses "The Scarlet Letter" as a reflection of Hawthorne's religious doubts and yearning for the past.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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"This paper will consider the influence of Puritan writers on Nathaniel Hawthorne. In addition, the paper will discuss Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, as a complex, ambiguous book which reflects the author's religious doubts and yearning for the past. Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up in New England during the early nineteenth century, and as such he was strongly influenced by the Puritan beliefs which were widely held in that place and time. Hawthorne himself was indoctrinated into a religious philosophy which was known as Calvinism. Calvinism was based on the teachings of the sixteenth century church reformer John Calvin, who believed in the innate sinfulness of humankind, as well as in the need for the grace of God in order to attain salvation from sin. Although he eventually rejected Calvinism, the ideas of John Calvin proved to have a powerful impact on ... "
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Herman Melville?s "Bartleby the Scrivener", 2005.
This paper analyzes Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener", about a man who withdraws from life.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper explains that the story of Bartleby is ambiguous because the reader sees Bartleby's life entirely from the outside, never hearing anything in Bartleby's own voice except the repeated, "I would prefer not to." The author points out that some critics see Melville's image of Bartleby as reflecting his view of Henry David Thoreau and as a satirical comment on Thoreau's writings; Melville was fixated on Thoreau, despite the fact that there is no evidence that he ever met him. The paper concludes that Melville's life is more clearly evident in his sea stories; much of what is thought about his inner life and how it is reflected in this story is highly speculative although the ways he treats other characters faced with authority are similar to his other works.
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"It is possible that Bartleby has had some revelation about his life and has come to an understanding of the need to escape it. This is never clear, but Bartleby's way of escaping is clear--he withdraws into himself. Bartleby withdraws into a smaller and smaller space until he is not there at all. In his own way, Bartleby is quite reasonable about his withdrawal, a fact noted by the narrator when Bartleby first makes his declaration of preference: "With any other man, I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence. But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but, in a wonderful manner, touched and disconcerted me.""
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales, 2002.
This paper shows how Hawthorne's writings serve as a social commentary on the inherent dangers in blind acceptance of religious teachings.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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An examination of three of Hawthorne's works: "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark" and "Ethan Brand" . This paper shows that in all three, the author wishes to comment on the consequences of allowing religion to mar true recognition of goodness and beauty. All three stories highlight the fact that human kindness and faith are more important than obsession with religious teachings. Although Hawthorne?s writings have often been interpreted as being influenced by the author?s Puritan heritage, the writer shows that there is equally a wide acknowledgement that Hawthorne left the interpretation of any moral lesson in his tales to the reader.
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"The influence of Puritan religion is a common theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne's works. Perhaps, it is the overwhelming presence of this theme that has led to Hawthorne?s writings being interpreted as morbid and full of Puritanical gloom. This interpretation is also encouraged by well-documented facts about Hawthorne?s strong awareness of his Puritan ancestry and his sense of guilt over their participation in the famous Salem witch trials. However, there is a much stronger case in favor of the fact that Hawthorne?s purpose was to actually use his writings as an indictment of Puritan society and indeed the folly of blind acceptance of religious teachings."
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Love in Nethaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories, 2005.
A literary study about understanding three female characters in the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this paper, Hawthorne provides three different women within three different stories that promote the theme of unattainable love. The women in Hawthorne's short stories die or are invariably unable to love the central male protagonist, but have varying differences of character and destiny that isolate them from a consummation of love's conjoined ideology. The paper describes the way in which Hawthorne has forged tales of romance that deny love and romance to the men and women involved in these three short stories.
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"This literary study will examine the role of unattainable women in three stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this manner, Annie from "The Artist of the Beautiful", Georgiana in "The Birthmark", and Beatrice in "Rappaccini's Daughter" will be compared and contrasted. By examining the role of the unattainable and distant woman in relation to the plots in these tales, Hawthorne imbues the futility of romance in his short story works. In "Rappaccini's Daughter" the theme of unattainable love revolves around Giovanni and Beatrice, the daughter of the scientist Baglioni. The poisonous plants that the scientist creates have immunized Beatrice, and have had a harmful effect on Giovanni. The repulsion to Beatrice is instilled through her inaccessibility in the poisonous garden."
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Herman Melville's "Billy Budd", 2000.
An analysis of Herman Melville's novel "Billy Budd". A look at the writing style, use of irony and central themes.
4,870 words (approx. 19.5 pages), 1 source, $ 124.95
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An analysis of Herman Melville's novel "Billy Budd" centering on Melville's exploration of authority, as intertwined with other moral and philosophical issues in the novel. Extensive textual analysis is used to reveal Melville's methods of using irony and allegory. Included is a review of the novel and a discussion of the central characters.
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"In Billy Budd Melville takes on the issue of authority, complicated by other moral and philosophical issues. The key word here is complicated, as Melville, seems unable to see anything in a simple manner. To Melville, life, like the sea, is a mystery, full of unanswerable questions. As a writer, he struggles to delve more and more deeply into the mystery while we, as readers, sometimes feel we are drowning in unfathomable depths. In Billy Budd, Melville continues the quest he began forty years earlier in Moby Dick. In his white whale Melville embodied everything fearful and unknowable to man. Now at the end of his life, he has a few more words to say on these subjects. It is my belief that if one looks closely at the clues offered by the narrative structure of the story it is quite possible to identify Melville?s position in relation to the moral issues addressed. In doing so, however, one must keep in mind Melville?s critical attitude, his love of ambiguous allegory, his godlike inscrutability and the possibility that to modern ears his subtle satirical voice may sound like perplexing perversity."
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Mind Over Matter in Poe and Hawthorne, 2009.
An in-depth analysis and comparison of the mind over matter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".
4,653 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 120.95
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The paper explores the similarities between the characters Roderick Usher in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Arthur Dimmesdale in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter." The paper analyzes how the concern of mind over matter is realized in different ways by both Poe and Hawthorne and shows how for Poe, decay incorporates the idea of madness as the inevitable condition of the human mind, while for Hawthorne, decay represents the sinfulness of the people in general. The paper illustrates how both stories follow the connections between physical and mental or spiritual decay and the way in which matter itself hints at a higher, transcendental reality.
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"Nineteenth century American literature is pervaded by a late Romantic current promoted by a few very original writers. Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two of the most representative writers of the first half of the nineteenth century. The authors' names often appear together in criticism, since their works share primarily in the laden atmosphere and grotesque style of the period. Their novels and short stories are imbued with a grim mood and their heroes are tragic personages who undergo transcendental and all-together transforming experiences. While Poe is more concerned with what he calls the psyche and the intellect however, Hawthorne investigates the realms of spirituality and religious experience."
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