This quote from "The Birthmark" represents a completely opposite view of the birthmark as an ugly flaw, which is how Aylmer views the birthmark. ... People from throughout the village of Salem all gather for the evil ceremony. This gathering represents the bondage of humanity. ... Brown sympathizes with the sinners in the forest by partaking in their evil ceremony. ... These people are the most highly respected citizens in all of Brown's community; however, they are obviously sinners like everyone else, for they partake in the evil ceremony in Brown's dream, which again rep...

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Rappaccini's garden sets the stage of this allegory, while the characters of the story each represent the important figures from the Genesis account. ... In a sense, the dark and gloomy mansion symbolizes the domain of evil. ... In Rappaccini's Daughter, the original sinners, Adam and Eve, are represented by Giovanni Guasconti and Beatrice Rappaccini. ... Baglioni continually conveys an evil image of Rappaccini to Giovanni. ... In a sense, the dark and gloomy mansion symbolizes the domain of evil. ...

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The stars represent the only orientation left in the dark, the cloud covering them up symbolizes Goodman Brown's impending loss of faith and values in life due to potentially hearing his wife's voice. ... In the beginning of the story a clear distinction is made between the village, its puritan inhabitants, among them Young Goodman Brown, and the forest that holds the evil. With the turning point of the story, Young Goodman Brown's character is significantly altered, reflects the dark setting and becomes one with the evil due to his loss of faith. This assimilation of his charac...

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Rappaccini's garden sets the stage of this fable, while the characters of the story each represent the important figures from the Genesis account. ... In a sense, the dark and gloomy mansion symbolizes the domain of evil. ... In "Rappaccini's Daughter," the original sinners, Adam and Eve, are represented by Giovanni Guasconti and Beatrice Rappaccini. ...

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Similarly, in "The Minister's Black Veil,"" the black veil, which represents secretive sin, separated Father Hooper from his people, when in all actuality, each person possesses his own black veil, though only the departing come to this epiphany. ... Her institution "gardening "appears to be innocent, and with the exception of Baglioni "and somewhat later, Giovanni "Beatrice is beyond all suspicion of any form of evil, just as Father Hooper is a trusted minister in his community. ... Each is cursed with his own form of evil which isolates him from the world in which ...

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Outside of this door, however is a rosebush that represents Hester's beauty and elegance which is covered in "thorns"" that will only harm her and cover up her immense exquisiteness. ... Throughout the town, Hester's sin was not represented as an act of passion as Hester deemed it. ... "Ceasing to do evil is the most that can be asked of a human " (Howells- Hawthorne's Hester Prynne). ...

• Word Count: 1733
• Approx Pages: 7
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