"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hosti...

Scarlet Letter Critical Review Paper The Scarlet letter is a very important and impacting story to the time back then on the East Coast, to now in 2002. It is a love story that is broken up in several different ways. Sometimes you may think it's just a story about how leaders in that ti...

All who have read Nathaniel Hawthorne\'s \"The Scarlet Letter\" know of the harsh judgment passed by the Puritan society on Hester Prynne\'s sin of adultery. Hester could not rebel against their punishment, but she defied them in numerous ways. When interrogated for the name of her partner in sin, s...

In the literary works The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton there are many parallel characters. In all of these works the main characters are driven by love, hate and vengeance. Although initially victims themselves Abigail William...

REVEREND OR ADULTERER? Adultery, in societies around the world, is believed to be one of many major transgressions. Penalties for adultery sometimes include death or imprisonment, along with guilt suffering. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adultery is a blunder m...