An Analysis Of Hawthorne's Short Stories
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In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, he creates
characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a
more allegorical meaning. Many would say he targets woman without
justification. Therefore a reader may interpret him to be a misogynist.
In the story “Rapacci ....
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.... Young Goodman Brown is a
character who loses her faith and submits to the Devil. Hawthorne, in this
case directly uses faith as the carrier of a flaw. That is, she does not
contain enough self-control, or faith to refuse the calling of the Devil.
Even with the emotional plea from her husband, “Look up to heaven, and
resist the wicked one,” (1590) Faith cannot resist the Devil's temptation
and has “uncertain sorrow,” (1587) after submitting to him. The character
of Faith which Hawt ....
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