Kristen Brentzel The Signs of an Author Symbols add so much to an authors work. To be able to play the game of figuring out those symbols is on reason most readers pick up certain author's writings. Hawthorne is one of those writers. In this book we are showered with wonderful symbols ...

The Branded Mother and her Throwaway Child The Scarlet Letter is a story of hypocrisy and punishment. The strict Puritan laws made adultery a sin punishable by death or a life of misery. Although being an unwed mother or an illegitimate child is no longer a crime leading to capi...

Who is to JudgeCharles Murray writes in his essay "The Coming White Underclass" about the increasing population of illegitimacy of the white social class. Murray insists that illegitimacy is the largest problem in society with out any exceptions. Murray examines many possibilities for the rise in ...

When a book is published today that includes the story of an affair betweena married man and/or woman, hardly anyone raises an eyebrow in protest.After all, this is 2003, and extramarital affairs occur regularly in reallife and even more so in literature and films. However, the situation wasquite di...

Problematic SolutionsWith the New Year approaching great change will undoubtedly accompany the new millennium. Changes in technology and the arts will emerge naturally but as the times change it is our responsibility to ensure that social policies are designed to best benefit society. Drugs, crim...

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Thomas a' Becket's tomb in Canterbury. Throughout the stories, women are often portrayed in two opposing ways. The women in these tales are either depicted as pristine and virginal, or ...