... two characters with the actual setting. The barren hills that look like white elephants have a deeper meaning than it might occur. First of all, a white elephant has both good and bad connotations. The hills are like white elephants for the girl because it has ambivalent meanings and that is what her inner child represents to her since a white elephant can evoke ... an unwanted gift or bad luck. It can also suggest the pale cold skin of a stillborn infant. However, it has its package of positive images such as beauty, purity, and innocence like the highly esteemed ... towards the arriv...

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... his experiments: "He would sacrifice human life, his own among the rest, or whatever else is dearest to him, for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the heap of his accumulated knowledge" (Hawthorne 185), this quote demonstrates that Rappiccinni has become far too involved in his own experiments. Rappiccinni crosses the line of controlled versus ... . Here Hawthorne demonstrates the romantic ideal of emotion over intellect. Rappicccinni's motives were selfish, he wanted to use science for fame. Because his motives were not good, the results were bad. We can also see ...

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... and work their whole lives just to hang on to some scrap of a life. This is how she views these people. She believes that they are good country people not a bad seed among them and that are all eager to help out and bow in humility to the upper class. The gullible nature of Mrs. Hopewell betrays her true vision of a situation ... ...

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