... orderly and obedient to common rules." (50) Phoebe, a country cousin of the Pyncheons. She has come to Salem, a small town in New England, to visit. Phoebe, unlike Hepzibah, she welcomes the morning with cheer and a prayer. She brings in the sunshine to the house of the seven gables. Phoebe is like "god's angel." She is the symbolism of newness. She possesses the quality to spread cheer around her surroundings. She plans to ... surprised. He remembers her as angry all the time and isolated from the world. He is surprised to learn that she has opened a shop. He becomes angry with her for t...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister, who will not confess his sin of adultery. The forest is a place where the both of them, Hester and Dimmesdale, may have an open, truthful conversation without the restrictions of a strict Puritan society, where their sin, mainly Hester's due to its openness in the novel, will prevent even an attempt to carry a small chat. The forest, where no one ever ventures, is seen as a ... , none the less! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million fold the power of retribution for my sin."(109) The narrator also e...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown" (Hawthorne 287). The image of pink ribbons forces one to think of a little girl with pigtails playing with her dolls in the backyard. This innocence comes with a sweet and caring stigma. Another quotation from the text reinstates this sweet innocence. "Then God Bless you, said Faith, with the pink ... delicate, soft spoken, and innocent in a society where men were dominant. Although this piece of literature does not italicize specific restrictions or limitations that women of t...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... to realize that not only is the past corrupt, but those that surround the present as well. Goodman's journey is taking him farther and farther away from the safety of reality and into the wilderness where bad things can happen. He is walking down the devil's path and the devil is showing Goodman the way his life should truly be seen. The devil is opening the doors that have always been ... hidden to bring light to the fact that things are always as they appear to be. Goodman's journey ... his catechism teacher and hears his minister because in Brown's life, these people are flawless ab...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School