Abbie Mourey, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:56:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Abbie Mourey, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 Passion Realized, Passion Repressed: Symbols of Passion in The Scarlet Letter https://hyacinthreview.org/abbie-mourey-passion-realized-passion-repressed-symbols-of-passion-in-the-scarlet-letter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abbie-mourey-passion-realized-passion-repressed-symbols-of-passion-in-the-scarlet-letter Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7504 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a novel suffused with symbolism. Indeed, Hawthorne introduces his novel as a symbolic act: an examination and apology of the role his ancestors played in the Salem Witch Trails (6–11). The best-known symbol within the work is the scarlet letter itself, which Hester Prynne wears on her dress for…

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]]> 7504 The Mythification of the Other: Reading Tess of the D’Urbervilles in Light of The Second Sex https://hyacinthreview.org/abbie-mourey-the-mythification-of-the-other-reading-tess-of-the-durbervilles-in-light-of-the-second-sex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abbie-mourey-the-mythification-of-the-other-reading-tess-of-the-durbervilles-in-light-of-the-second-sex Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7432 In her seminal piece of feminist criticism, French existentialist author Simone de Beauvoir lays out her theory of a universal female experience that transcends different historical periods and societies . De Beauvoir argues that women share various experiences regardless of what time or place they live in because of an action she calls “othering” (1218).…

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