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This is a 4 page paper comparing the dark themes and central characters in Hawthorne’s tales “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “Young Goodman Brown” (1845, 1846) and “The Minister’s Black Veil” (1836) tell of similar characters, Young Goodman Brown and Reverend Hooper, who cannot focus on their own sins but instead can only obsess about the sins of those around them. This brings both characters a great deal of gloom, moral distrust, conflict and isolation until their deaths. The tales use elements of darkness to project the image of sin as seen in Brown’s confrontation with an old man/the devil with an appearance of a great black snake and Hooper’s persistent wearing of his black veil. Hawthorne, said to be haunted by his own preoccupation of the sins of man, tried to distance himself from his earlier darker works as seen in “The Minister’s Black Veil” but the sins of man keep reappearing years later, as in “Young Goodman Brown” suggesting to others that Hawthorne’s inner conflicts and self-isolation remained and were also reflected in his own wearing of dark attire similar to those of the Puritans and the dark characters found in his writing.
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characters, Young Goodman Brown and Reverend Hooper, who cannot focus on their own sins but instead can only obsess about the sins of those around them. This brings both characters
a great deal of gloom, moral distrust, conflict and isolation until their deaths. The tales use elements of darkness to project the image of sin as seen in Browns confrontation
with an old man/the devil with an appearance of a great black snake and Hoopers persistent wearing of his black veil. Hawthorne, said to be haunted by his own preoccupation
of the sins of man, tried to distance himself from his earlier darker works as seen in "The Ministers Black Veil" but the sins of man keep reappearing years later,
as in "Young Goodman Brown" suggesting to others that Hawthornes inner conflicts and self-isolation remained and were also reflected in his own wearing of dark attire similar to those of
the Puritans and the dark characters found in his writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne was considered more of "an observer of life than a participant,
the New Englander was morbidly shy and reclusive, and probably never would have married if not doggedly pursued by his wife". In addition, "he also dressed in black, and often
concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna 324). This being said, it can
easily be seen as Hawthornes characters and themes are often ones appearance and deception in addition to trying to understand mans desire for sin and quite often the darker side
of man. Hawthorne was known to agree with the Puritan colonialists in that a person should practice self-awareness before searching out the sins of others. Overall however, within Hawthornes stories,
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