... the natural world for the answers to life since the beginning. From the days of the cavemen, to the transcendentalist movement of the Second Great Awakening, to modern day, mankind is finding comfort and closure in nature. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature is extremely significant in the development of the plot, characters, themes, and main idea. Nature plays a very significant role in the plot development of the Scarlet Letter. In the opening scene of the novel, Hawthorne describes the setting of the ... prison where Hester Prynne was held for her crime. In a way, th...

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... would rather tread his own path than follow another's. Before he leaves, Siddhartha has a conversation with Gotama in which the smiling older man warns him to be wary of his own cleverness. Leaving the grove, Siddhartha experiences an awakening. The colors and splendors of the natural world, which have always been present but without attracting Siddhartha's notice, suddenly leap out to his newly appreciative senses ... . Even though he is alone in the world, tied to no group, he feels more encouraged than ever, for ... Hesse renders his main character as a type, exaggerated to the point ...

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... between the social proprieties of her upbringing and the spontaneous promptings of her heart. At the end she is convinced by George's father to follow the way of heart. Just married, Lucy and George come back to Italy. The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. In Forster's opinion Italians are more joyful and spontaneous, so Lucy's awakening becames from the ... : we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. For exampl...

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