Benny Goodman

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the forest as a symbol of Hester Prynne's life by using symbolism and imagery to accurately portray the identity she assumes, as well as the life she lives and how that changes course throughout the duration of the book Hawthorne effectively utilizes the forest to display a mental combat that has occurred to Hester as a result of the scarlet letter being issued to her. As Hester Prynne sit’s in the presence of Arthur Dimmesdale, their time to…

Before he began writing The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia Peabody worked and lived in a transcendental community known as Brook Farm. “There were those who said, when Hawthorne joined the Brook Farm experiment that he was more eager to write and get married than to farm” (Rosa 90). Although he felt like he did not fit in he stayed there for a year. At the farm he practiced transcendentalism views, though he never talked about his opinions on the religion himself…

When Hawthorne was only four years old his father died of yellow fever in Dutch Guinea causing him to live with his Uncle, for his mother could no longer care for him. Growing up he lived in Salem, Massachusetts, born at 27 union street on July 4, 1804. One day, outside playing ball Hawthorne put himself through an injury to his leg leaving him baseless for 3 years, this was the base for his love for the art of literature and writing. After Hawthorne’s injury, his time was spent outside admiring…

In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses numerous techniques such as imagery and allusions to characterize Chillingworth and Hester. Hawthorne makes it clear that Chillingworth is an evil person who will do anything to quench his thirst for retribution. Chillingworth reveals to be an evil person who not only feigns goodness but also enjoys other’s hardship. While Hester does seem to fear him, she also stands up to Chillingworth at times proving her devotion and courage. Hawthorne distinguishes…

Hawthorne’s open ending to “Young Goodman Brown” leaves the reader with the question, was Goodman, in fact, having a dream of the devil in Salem? This topic is up for debate although some would like to assume he took the darkened road leading him into the forest; we may never know. Hawthorne never answers this question yet leaves it up to the reader to decide where Goodman’s path leads. In this story, Hawthorne chooses to play on words while broadening their meaning. We find his reasoning in…

“I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the short parable, “The Minister’s Black Veil” as a reflection on the Puritan’s beliefs around him. The story follows Reverend Hooper, who decides to wear a black veil that covers his face. He indulges judgements, loneliness, and even the loss of his fiancé. He wears his veil till death barely answering questions about why he wore it. Hawthorne’s elaborate use of allegory and diction portrayed his views on the…

Through the transformation Dimmesdale, the symbol of the forest , and the development of the character Chillingworth, Hawthorne portrays that secret sin will eventually destroy a person and isolates a person. From the beginning of the Scarlet Letter, Hester Pryne was the only person being publicly punished for a sin that she not only committed, but someone else. The other person was Aurthur Dimmesdale, no one knew who also committed this sin, so when regret started to derive he was being…

James Tervort Hicken English 11 7 October 2015 Goodman Symbolism Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” tells the story of a man whose beliefs and faiths are or on the brink of destruction from temptation. Goodman Brown loses his belief in humanity when he discovers that the devils followers are all around us and every man has an evil spirit within himself. A different reaction would have been to accept the problems with man, and use that to get along better with others. We all sin, nobody…

“The crime of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” John Brown was married twice and had twenty children. His wife's name is Mary Ann Day and Dianthe Lusk. He had twenty kids, but only eleven survived childhood. John was a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system. John moved to Plainfield Massachusetts and enrolled in school. He transferred to an academy in Litchfield, Connecticut. First, John Brown was an American abolitionist.…

The sky broadly establishes the setting in “Young Goodman Brown”, which develops character. The "sunset" (55) represents a growing darkness in his life, from light to dark, from innocence to exposed truths and sin. Often Hawthorne illustrates the setting as being "old tree[s]" (57) in an "old forest" (62), just like the Devil appears to be the older version of Brown and the ancient forest represents the aged, bitter man he will eventually become. Hawthorne refers to the forest as a "heathen…