Nicole Brown Simpson

“Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories. Events in the Young Goodman Brown took place in…

Comparison between “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter” “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller are two pieces of literature written around the same era. They were written in the early days of the Massachusetts colony. Both of the pieces of literature have many similarities including the theme, setting, conflicts, and some major plot elements. But the two pieces of literature are also very different. They both use have a common theme…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, there are several themes, but the most ordinary and prominent is that everyone has secrets and sorrows hidden from others. In the story, the main character, Reverend Hooper, is a minister in a small Puritan community in Milford. The minister is described as wearing two folds of black crape, which entirely conceals his facial features other than his mouth and chin (240). This veil symbolizes many things, but most people assume that…

In the “Minister's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to represent secret sin and shows the theme is death. The main character named Mr. Hooper wears a black veil In the story Hooper wears a black veil which symbolizes hiding sin. “But what if the world will not believe that it is the type of an innocent sorrow?” urged Elizabeth. “Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office,…

Authors often use fictional works to add their own commentary about the social and political aspects of the era their work is placed in. In The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, draws attention to the Puritans’ flawed perspective on sin. Hawthorne illuminates this gray area that is often overlooked due to the black and white Puritan way of thinking. In doing so he adds his own viewpoint on the reality of sin and its reverberations. By portraying Hester as a sympathetic character,…

“Time in the forest could perhaps be interpreted as a period of personal development. A rite of passage perhaps?” (Gaunt 2). In the article titled, “The Fairytale Forest - a Source of Symbolism” written by Justine Gaunt, describes the true change that can occur in the forest leaving such an impression on those who experience it, that it in a sense is a coming of age. The forest has many figurative and literal symbols within it such as a new beginning or fear, but also can symbolize earth and the…

Clark Bolding Mrs. O’Neal AP English Language and Composition-4 14 November 2015 The Scarlet Letter Writing about Reading Defense of Passages Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter contains many overarching themes throughout the book. The author uses the themes to teach the reader a moral lesson. The main theme of the scarlet letter is sin, which causes many other ideas such as isolation and guilt as well as many others. The Scarlet letter is about a woman named Hester Prynne who cheats…

ENG 112W: The travelogue, “A Walk in the Woods,” depicts a laborious, seemingly never-ending hike through the Appalachian Trail in the voice of the author’s, Bill Bryson’s, alter-ego. By following the unfit pair of Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz, I learn of their perseverance despite the graveness of their journey and their shortcomings. Through the progression of the Appalachian Trail, the pair encounter problems that encourage them to unknowingly stray from the trail, trying to deter them from…

kingdom with complete and utter silence. And there was no sun. The forest was cloaked in this booming, resonant color of green that felt like it was going to knock me off my feet, and then steal the breathe out of my body. I was following a small brown path that was dotted with the most magnificent marbled rocks I have ever seen, and I knew exactly where I was going. At least, my dream self knew exactly where I was going. I woke up before I got to my destination, but I imagine it was a…

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…