Mosses from an Old Manse

There were many scientists in the past and many were successful and many were not. These scientists can be either portrayed positively and negatively in many ways. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of “The Birthmark”, Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment”, and “Rappaccini's Daughter”, portrays scientists negatively in these stories. Each of these allegories show how corrupt, inhumane, and manipulative scientist could be. In “The Birthmark”, Aylmer, a scientist married to Georgina, puts his love for…

Nothing much is explained about him but there are pieces of evidence that could support who he is. At least from the perspective I’m looking at, the relationship between the magician and the boy is a representation of “making a deal with the devil” stereotype. There are many pieces of evidence that support my claim in this. Such as, in the beginning of The Chaser, “An old man sat in the rocking chair, reading a newspaper.” (line 2) This represents the very mysterious side of the character…

Many books are similar because of the characters qualities and situations that occur throughout the story. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, follows 48 hours of Holden Caulfield, a young troubled child. He goes through many mental and emotional changes throughout the novel, much like Jim Stark, in the movie, Rebel without a Cause. This movie, directed by Nicholas Ray, examines the life of a constant moving teen, and the conflict he occurs while trying to fit in. Although…

girl. Ichabod knew that Brom liked her, but Ichabod didn’t care he only cares about himself and what he wants. Brom Bones really wants to get payback on Ichabod and he will. One dark foggy night Ichabod was walking thru the woods to go home coming from Katrina house (the girl Brom likes.) Brom Bones was standing behind the tree waiting on Ichabod to walk pass. As Ichabod is walking pass Brom Bones proceeded to walk up behind him and knocked him out with a glass bottle and put a trash bag…

evil and death. Hawthorne states that Goodman Brown is wandering through the dusky forest at night-time, which indicates that a tragic event will occur at the conclusion of the story. In addition, the black snake-like staff is a device used by the old man to deceive people, in the same way, the crook fooled Goodman Brown to go further deep into the forest, which will signify temptation and evil toward people. Similarly, the brown hue symbolizes the spiritual death of a character. Ironically, the…

the woods feeling very uneasy for “there may be a devilish Indian behind every tree” (Hawthorne 90). Along the path he meets an old man with a staff “which bore the likeness of a great black snake” (Hawthorne 91). The silver-tongued man claims to intimately know Goodman as well as his father and grandfather. While walking, they see a woman named Goody Cloyse. As the old man approaches her she…

respond to the call of national characteristics of the times, which help him to consolidate a high status in American literary history. Hawthorne’s Romance, as a new literary form, has exerted a tremendous impact on Hawthorne contemporaries and critics from home and abroad, which strengthens his literary position. In most every book he wrote, he discussed evil in human nature. For example, Hawthorne’s short stories “The Birthmark” and “Young Goodman Brown” established the theme of human nature…

side. “…prisoner of a partial vision that has dehumanized him, and obliterated from his mind that part of a man…is made in God’s image and is next to the angels in the hierarchy…

most likely true for his neighbors as we find out later. The community’s beliefs in religion are only as vigorous as they think their neighbors religious beliefs are. We start to see this collapse in the woods with Goodman Brown. At first, he hides from Goody Cloyse and Deacon Gookin when he sees them approaching in the woods. He does this so he can keep his assumed faith in good standing with a top member of his religious society. Later, realizes she was also greeting the same man he did and…

Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the grandmother’s hat. She wears a girly outfit for the drive thinking that if they were to crash then people would know that she was a lady, a good lady. This is very misleading because the grandmother is the furthest from a typical, sociable lady. When they actually do crash her hat falls apart along with her moral principles. The brim of the hat comes off just as they are facing the misfit. The broken hat is released just like her moral judgement. In “ A Good…