PAPER No. 1 In my paper I would like to respond to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and to Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave". Even though these two novel weren't written in the same century both hav...

"Slavery" All of the characters in The Scarlet Letter were victims of some kind of slavery. The whole town of Boston, Massachusetts was made up of Puritans. They were very religious people and religion was basically their life. They worshiped God, the church and the revere...

A scapegoat is a person or thing made to bear the blame for the mistakes or sins of others. Scapegoats have been used all over the world and at all times, especially in the 1700's, during slavery. For example, the Klu Klux Klan or KKK, used black people as their scapegoats becau...