Among them, there is rejection of science, clash between Nature and culture, notions of good and evil (duality), human nature, and the contradiction with and opposition to convention and religion. ... Besides, she considers those plants as her sisters for the only human being she knows is her father. ... Throughout these events, Hawthorne conveys the romantic belief that science corrupts humans and inflames the greed for knowledge that is beyond human limits. ... Like science, culture is seen as a threat to human souls and nature. 19th C America is characterised by a crucial conflict betwee...

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Her two main series are The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern vampires through a vampire's eyes, often as victims of the "dark gift"23 of vampirism, struggling to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving on. A dominant theme in this series is "the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul..."24 These books are romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature...

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• Grade Level: High School

He writes, arrayed with as much richness of taste as the most splendid of the flowers bloom so deep and vivid that one shade more would have been too much redundant with life, health, and energy Beatrice is described as a part of nature and vivacious. ... Baglioni states, 'He would sacrifice human life, his own among the rest, or whatever else was dearest to him, for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the great heap of his accumulated knowledge.' ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. Carol Weshoven looks at Pri...

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This connection between personal integrity and a responsive social relationship is vital given the novel's basic conception of the human subject. ... "Hawthorne uses this dichotomy to point out the hypocritical nature of Puritanism: Those who condemn Hester are themselves condemnable according to their own set of values" (Van Kirk 28). ...

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