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Analyzing literary works: drama Literature Essay
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This essay aims at analyzing the similarities between comic plays, tragic plays, and realist plays in terms of characters, the themes, how the plots are built. In order to better understand these similarities and differences in terms of type of play, the characters, the development of the plots, and the climaxes, the essay uses “Sure Thing”, “Othello”, and “Twilight: Los Angeles”.
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Answering the Questions Concerned Macbeth Play Literature Assignment
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After the prophecies, Macbeth's hunger for power was stimulated as they had presented two ways to the throne either by murdering Duncan or by waiting to inherit the throne which would be a longer process. Lady McBeth also utilized the help of supernatural forces in the plot to murder King Duncan (Act I, Scene V, II 42-57). 
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The Definitively Non-Standard English Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that normally the mind has a lot to speak. It is able to think, plan, and store information to an extent. However, the information in the mind is just but a cloud of thoughts if not put into a form that can be referred to, at a later time and even accessible to others.
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Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis Literature Essay
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The novel is based on the lives of Hugh Wolfe and Deborah, who are employed in these mills. The author shows how these two lead poor lives, which in itself represents the lives of many mill workers. In order to illustrate the poor working conditions in the mills, the author uses the example of Kirby & John mill, where Hugh is employed.
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Great Gatsby - The Corrupting Nature of Wealth by F Scott Fitzgerald Literature Essay
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Fitzgerald appears to ridicule the American dream by portraying a fading American dream. The book begins by showing the characters in the novel very much determined and working hard to achieve the American dream. Because of hard work, the characters become wealthy and begin to live a lavish lifestyle (Lee 8).
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Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut Literature Book Report/Review
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The first reason is because the reader is given a view of some important issues which Billy has been trying to hide from himself. The second reason is because this scene contains a large number of clues about the way Billy relates to other people at this stage in his life.
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Characteristics of Shakespeare Plays Literature Essay
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It is quite essential to state that Shakespeare has dealt with the characteristic of love and marriage in most of his 38 plays. Although these two characteristics are omnipresent in his works, the way he ends the love affair between the characters most of the time makes that work a comedy or a tragedy.
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Odysseus - Ancient History Literature Research Paper
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 Greek civilization is one of the oldest civilizations known to mankind. The whole world owes to the ancient Greek civilization due to the reason that science, drama and even literature were first introduced by Greeks. Trojan War is an important event in the ancient Greek civilization. Greeks tried their best to get Troy conquered but failed. 
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Element of Sexual Symbolism in the Yellow Wall-Paper Literature Research Paper
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The author shows that women struggled against a society that was highly dominated by men (Barrish 125). There are two key symbols that are predominantly shown in the text which represent the element of sexual symbolism. The first and most noticeable symbol is the wallpaper itself, which the author has used to show the wall of oppression that women faced if diagnosed with mental problems.
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One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest Literature Essay
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The study leads to the conclusion that McMurphy plays the role of a con man as well as that of a community builder. As a con man, he pretends to be a mental case and is transferred to the hospital for the mentally ill. Once there, he pulls the strings together as a sober competent gambler to take advantage of the patients.
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Iliad, Antigone, and Bhagavad Gita Literature Essay
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Is the classical Greek Hero a dharma warrior? Yes, I do believe that the classical Greek hero is a dharma warrior mainly due to the symbols, character and humanity they represent as we are about to find out. A Dharma warrior is an Eastern term whose Western equivalents may incorporate ethics, morals, prudence, honesty and immaculateness.
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Modern Chinese Literature Literature Essay
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In the Chinese context it would be apt to say that the literature and the politics happen to be intricately intertwined. Under the rule of Mao Zedong the role of literature in the Chinese society and politics was promptly defined. However, with the reinvention of China under the following regimes the literary creativity also evinced a mark shift of focus.
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Comparison of Hamlet move to Hamlet original play Literature Movie Review
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A very typical example of this is Hamlet, which has both a play version and a movie version. The work was however originally written as a play by William Shakespeare. In 2000, Michael Almereyda made a film version of the play, the two of which has their similarities and differences.
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William Faulkner Literature Research Paper
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Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction Writing may not only encompass simple techniques that rule out common mistakes of grammatical errors, punctuation and spelling but a reflective and accurate presentation of thoughts and ideas that responds and responds to the needs of the readers.
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Ernest Hemingways A Clean Well Lighted Place and Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find Literature Assignment
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This paper will begin with the statement that the world and all earthlings can be subjects initiating introspection for those who like to see more than what is visible to a simple man’s eye. Every single object placed here, and every single move made, has a meaning, sometimes a masked meaning which is visible only to those who seek them. 
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Literature Essay
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Thesis 1 talks about Tom being in the age bracket of 12 and 13 years. Tom’s attitude and perspective on life are discussed in thesis 2 as having made him the hero he is in American literature. Finally, the paper presents a negative attitude that comes out from the book regarding several characters: child like revenge.
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Position of Women in the 19th-Century Society Literature Essay
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Society has come a long way when it comes to the role of women in society. In the past, women did not have a say in the societal roles, as all the roles meant for them were already embedded in the societal norms. The greatest point of controversy about these roles was that they degraded the position of women in society instead of enhancing this position.
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The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela Literature Essay
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The novel begins on a dark night when a riotous group of Federals arrive in the Rancho of Demetrio Macias, who had already gained recognition for displaying valor in the skirmishes of the Mexican revolution. This group was fighting from the side of the despicable Mexican military dictator, Victoriano Huerta, who formed an exploitive regime.
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Is Don Quixote Insane Literature Essay
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra has made excellent efforts to bring out the language used in the early 17th century, as this is the time of the novel set up. He has brought out the aspect of chivalry, which was about protection of the weak in the society, this was mainly the work of knights. This was a contentious issue in the late 16th century and early 17th century.
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A Review of Cities of Salt and Running in the Family Literature Essay
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Arguably a pioneer of the modern Arab literature, “Cities of Salt” is an interesting novel by Abd al-Rahman Munif whose publication in the twentieth century has attracted a wide readership from across the world. Munif focuses the story on the exploration of oil close to a tiny, far-flung urban Wadi in the Middle East.
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Ophelia, The silent Raconteur Literature Essay
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But Hamlet rarely thinks about her in his life. She is silent character who does not have heroine qualities. But she is alive through her passiveness and soft language. Her death makes her more alive. Ophelia influences Hamlet and all other characters and the rest of their life through her passiveness.
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Go On by Lisa Zaran Literature Essay
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This poem is the story of every woman’s life from a feminist point of view, who strives to live in this patriarchal world. Meeting challenges from cradle to coffin, a woman’s life is a life that is dictated or influenced by others. A woman has to pretend that everything is alright, even when it is not.
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Wuthering Heights Literature Essay
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Heathcliff is subjectively a Heights figure opposing the Grange, and objectively a Grange figure undermining the Heights; he focuses acutely the contradictions between the two worlds.’ Discuss this statement about Wuthering Heights.
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The Wind in the Willows Literature Essay
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A host of other animals, such as otters, rabbits, hedgehogs and birds make their appearance. The friends enjoy many pleasant picnics and outings; they encounter exciting adventures, including getting lost in the woods; Toad is imprisoned for car-theft and makes an ingenious escape from jail; the group defeats the evil stoats and weasels in the climactic battle for Toad Hall.
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Real Stories of East L.A - My Ride, My Revolution Literature Essay
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In the opening text where the narrator says that “the unshaven men gather around to put words together about this wonder on the roadway that seems to smirk at their poverty, to lay like a diamond on garbage-strewn lot” (Rodriguez), the limo is a contrast of the kind of life these people are living in, it brings out the theme of comparison.  
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Utopia and Cold Equation Literature Essay
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The cold equations tell of a story of the world on the space as people travel to other planet, which does not have an appealing lifestyle. In the utopian world there is no private property, everything is owned communally. People farm together, their goods are stored together in warehouses, and everyone has access without having to ask for it (More 20).
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One Thousand and One Nights Literature Research Paper
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The author states that magic is also central to the stories as there are characters with jinns, ghouls, wizards, magicians and even famous people of history. Fiction is intermingled with non-fiction. Then sometimes, these characters would intermingle within Scheherezade’s stories resulting to a rich narrative.
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Analysis of Dantes Inferno Literature Essay
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The Hell that Dante constructs contain nine levels or circles and each circle constitutes a different sin and therefore different suffering. The sufferings of the sinners in each circle of Hell are a contrapasso meaning that the suffering of the sinners is a justice of the sin that they commit on Earth.
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Conservation/Conservation Movement Literature Essay
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It is during this century that many literary works focused on the relationship between man and the environment, leading to the emergence of the conservation movement, which is a political environmental and economic group that emerged with the sole objective of pushing for the protection of nature (Wilder, 53).
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Pride and Prejudice Character Analysis: Elizabeth Bennet Literature Essay
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The plot and the characters are based on the socio-economic settings of the early 19th century in a fictional town named, “Meryton” in Hertfordshire, near London. The book is loved by millions of readers around the world despite the extinct cultural values and norms which are extensively portrayed in the story (Ghent 299).
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Naked Lunch by William Burroughs Literature Book Report/Review
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The paper asserts that far from being trivial, the consensus from the literature is that Naked Lunch is an important and vital literary work, and that Burroughs, though he is also a drug addict, is not simply just that, because of the great beauty of the writing and the obvious intensity and passion that he put into the writing of the work.
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The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig Literature Essay
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The Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Manuel Puig ] Homosexuality and masculinity are two items, which are widely considered by different scholars in terms, if these items can be compared and coexist in one male or in terms of how men should demonstrate their masculinity if they are homosexual.
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The Use of Sound Effects in the Production of a Film Literature Essay
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The music and the sound effects that are incorporated play an integral part in this experience. Sophisticated sound technology and approaches are used in contemporary documentaries, matching those of feature films. Well-recorded original location sound is crucial in documentary films, more so than in feature films where ADR techniques are regular used in postproduction.
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Fall of Man from Grace into Sin as a Fortunate Event Literature Book Report/Review
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He explains the reason for the fall of man and its impact on man. He justifies the fact that, although man experienced a fall, the fall was fortunate ‘felix culpa’. One theme that reverberates in the poem pertains to the fate of man and his free will: Nor had they yet among the Sons of EVE Got them new Names, till wandering ore the Earth.
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Bomb Makers Who Gets Blown Up Sky High by Their Own Weapons Literature Research Paper
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In most cases, deception kills trust within the people associated close and brings in the feeling of vulnerability (Schulze 6). This is the most overt theme in Shakespeare’s Play Hamlet. This is because each character who engages in deceit, sideshows, and mask driving seems eventual and at the wrong time punished for the heinous act by an underhanded death. 
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THe Canterbury tales Literature Essay
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The Wife of Bath’s Tale has an unexpected ending because Chaucer himself was accused of rape. Chaucer is among the founding figures in the history of literature (“Geoffrey Chaucer”). In the legal record of 1380, Cecelia Chaumpaigne consents releasing Geoffrey Chaucer from the legal actions related to de raptu meo (Beidler).
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Literary analysis on E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman Literature Essay
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Through the letters, Nathaniel narrates to his friends how the story of the Sandman scared him when he was still young (Hoffmann 4). The tales have it that the Sandman is a creature that forces children to sleep by blinding them with particles of sand. According to his nurse, the Sandman is an evil being, who approaches children when their eyes will not get heavy, and sprinkles some sand into their eyes hence cause their heads to bleed.
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Interrogating the Museum Literature Essay
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For instance, a master was responsible in making garment patterns and planning for the garment design. Apprentices were experts in skin preparation while women carried out embroidery activities on the garments. This clearly indicated that there was a combined effort in cloth manufacturing industries during the 17th century.
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been Literature Essay
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Literary Analysis: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” The short story entitled “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates is a literary discourse that focused on the main character, Connie, a fifteen year old girl who apparently exuded physical characteristics and traits that differed from those exhibited by members of her family.
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William Faulkners Barn Burning Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the protagonist tries to save his family from the troubles created by his father. But this initiative alienates the protagonist from this private circle and forces him to leave his family. In the short story (say, Barn Burning), conflict originates from the protagonist’s dilemma.
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A rose for emily Literature Research Paper
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The third section is about a long illness Emily is caught in after her father’s death, and her growing relationship with Homer, a man far below her status. The fourth section discusses the town’s speculation that the poison Emily will commit suicide with the poison she has bought, the growing suspicion about her marriage to Homer, and Emily and Homer’s disappearance into her home for a long time.
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Odyssey: Greek Gods and Heroes Literature Term Paper
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Therefore, this paper seeks to discuss the world of Odyssey and how it depicts honor or how the Greek gods and heroes control the actions of an individual. Therefore, Odyssey is a hero in this case. The question of whether Odyssey is the hero of the Greeks especially in ancient Greek is still a very debatable matter.
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Character Comparison in William Shakespeare Plays Literature Essay
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The protagonist and the antagonist characters often end up in a cosmic conflict in which one party is agitating for a given issue which does not palatable to the other. While this tends to take shape in most instances in the play, the neutral characters help the reader to understand the contention between the protagonist and the antagonist as well the voice of reasoning that either party should take (Sadowski 23).
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Prose Type of Language Structure Literature Essay
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The research paper, in addition, answers the questions related to the speaker’s subject matter of her speech. Lastly, this research paper takes part in the explanation of various settings and preparations that should be made in order for an individual to come up with a perfectly modified speech to the audience.
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An Analysis of the Enlightenment Themes in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Literature Essay
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The period mainly advocated for a reason, criticism, logic and freedom in terms of thought contrary to dogmatic, superstitious and blinded faith. During this period, logic played a role in advocating for a world view that argued for an empirical view of human life in revealing the truth related to the universe, the self and human society.
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From The Great Gatsby describe and analyze two or three specific physical settings Literature Essay
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In Fitzgerald’s words, the Mid-West was likened to the ragged edge of the world characterized by lawns and vegetation (10). New York City, on the other hand, is a place famous for the blossoming bond business. In the Midwest, people lead a fairly slow life focusing on their family businesses and relationships, whereas life in New York is very frantic and demanding.
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Voltaires Candide- Satirical Analysis of Hypocrisy Literature Literature review
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Ironically, Cunegonde is telling the story to the old woman, who, together with her mother also happens to have been abused by Salleecorsairs The old woman narrates how en route to Gaeta, the Sallee soldiers ambushed their galley and stripped everyone naked and started poking their fingers everywhere in search of concealed weapons(Voltaire 24). 
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The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Literature Essay
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The focus of this paper shall be Miranda who happens to play the role of a leader in the film. Miranda’s case is in stark contrast to the stereotypical image portrayed about female leaders and highlights how preconceived notions of the same could lead one to erroneously assume that Miranda’s leadership style was anything but appropriate.
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Character Analysis of Nora from A Doll's House Literature Essay
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In the initial scenes, Nora conducts herself in a childish way and the audience is introduced to a woman who despite being old enough to a mother and wife seem to behave essentially like a child.
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Analysis of the American Literature Literature Essay
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The puritan era also had a rich witchcraft history, and Hawthorne uses of a woman can be seen as appropriate in this case. In general, it is clear that Hawthorne uses both sexes to bring out the explicit evil flaws and establish his beliefs to the reader
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