The Use Of Characters By Hawthorne And O'Connor To Teach Morality
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Since early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows it or not, tries to put man in the same position as God. In Hawthorne’s “Youn ....
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.... our history, we did not except differences, especially theological differences. This was the time of the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts. At Salem, many people were executed because they were thought to be witches. In today’s times that sounds absurd, but at that time it was a real fear, to think that they would be corrupted by these demonic beings and they would be kept from heaven.
Goodman Brown was a church going man and most people would have thought him to be good. He came from ....
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