Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” 523 Mother Shipton, in an act of selflessness that belies the town’s moral judgment of her, starves ...

524 Hawthorne, Nathaniel After 10 days of dwindling provisions and 20-foot snow drifts making a prison of their small cabin, esc ...

“The Birth-mark” 525 give up her life. Georgiana’s love for him is so great that she is willing to give up her life in an attemp ...

526 Hawthorne, Nathaniel obsessed with his own knowledge, he can enjoy her presence only when she reflects his love for science. ...

The House of the Seven Gables 527 two come to the conclusion that work must be done to get rid of it. It is clear at this point ...

528 Hawthorne, Nathaniel commerce in The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne’s descriptions and characterizations pro- vide a le ...

The House of the Seven Gables 529 something destructive if pursued with unmitigated greed and avarice, as in the case of the col ...

530 Hawthorne, Nathaniel represented most concretely by the thoughts, feel- ings, actions, and relationships of Hepzibah, Clif- ...

“Rappaccini’s Daughter” 531 ness of spirit” and the decay of the titular house are a direct result of the effects of greed, trea ...

532 Hawthorne, Nathaniel bringers of death. Thus, Rappaccini is presented as an egotistical character whose only design in life ...

“Rappaccini’s Daughter” 533 once inside, he meets Beatrice and talks with her. It is in the conversations between the two youngs ...

534 Hawthorne, Nathaniel out of my own hands, as I may say, and make use of him for his infernal experiments” (988). The consequ ...

The Scarlet Letter 535 est practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil . . . as the site of a prison.” Once Hest ...

536 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hester and Dimmesdale must grapple with their sin, Pearl reminds readers that both Hester and Dimmesdal ...

The Scarlet Letter 537 this examination with the novel’s first chapter, “The Prison Door,” which opens with a “throng of bearded ...

538 Hawthorne, Nathaniel in Puritan attitudes and beliefs, for the townspeople, and even the magistrates themselves read the “A” ...

“Young Goodman Brown” 539 Calvinist conviction of the total depravity of human- kind, so Brown, after witnessing the secret evil ...

540 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Brown loses the innocence of his youthful con- victions at this altar. Later, after he returns to the v ...

Catch-22 541 altar, a parody of a church gathering. For Brown the experience in the woods has a pernicious influence on his own ...

542 Heller, Joseph one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr ...