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A 5 page paper discussing Heinrich von Kleist's “Die Verlobung auf St. Domingo” (“The Betrothal in Santo Domingo”), set during the Haitian Revolution, and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Each of the two works share themes of choice, doubt, hypocrisy and the coexistence of good and evil; the protagonists also share many characteristics. The purpose here is to determine if von Kleist and Hawthorne reach similar conclusions, and it must be concluded that they do indeed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Heinrich von Kleists "Die Verlobung auf St. Domingo" ("The Betrothal in Santo Domingo"), set during the Haitian Revolution, and Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown" share many of the same
themes. Each of the two works share themes of choice, doubt, hypocrisy and the coexistence of good and evil. Both works end
with the physical death of their protagonists. Hawthornes Goodmans physical death merely marks an end to physical existence; his emotional existence ceased years before his body ceased to function.
von Kleists Gustav, on the other hand, believed himself to be living until the end of his life. Both faced the paradox of blackness - Goodmans in his
own heart, Gustavs in the faces and skin of people within the realm of his daily experience. The purpose here is to determine if von Kleist and Hawthorne reach
similar conclusions. Awareness As is so often the case in our daily lives even today,
in many ways the protagonists of each story fail to see the deeper meanings of events of their lives and of the people important to them. Neither had a
"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their minds or hearts.
Goodman was more honest about his withdrawal than was Gustav. Gustav believed himself to be a morally superior outsider as the Haitian Revolution raged around him.
He believed that others could see him as safe and at least mostly neutral in the fight that he intellectually could see was not his own. He believed that
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