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This 5 page paper discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minister's Black Veil in reference to the transcendental movement during his day and time. Also included are Poe and Melville's comments on Hawthorne's works and on transcendentalism. Examples and quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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well known authors of the day, including Edgar Allen Poe, disagreed with the movement. In his two of his short stories, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minsters Black Veil, Nathaniel
Hawthorne seems to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. Nathaniel Hawthorne came from a well established family
in Massachusetts, some of whom presided over the infamous witch trials in Salem. Many of his stories are set in the New England area and deal with the ideas of
the Puritans of early America. Overt themes of morality, sexual repression, guilt and confession and the journey of the soul toward salvation are to be found in many of his
works. Such is the case with two of his short stories, Young Goodman Brown and The Ministers Black Veil. The story of Young Goodman Brown centers around the theme of
a young mans determination to do the right thing, even though the rest of his community does not. This story is also thick with allegory about Puritanical values. For example,
when Young Goodman Brown decides not to meet the devil in the woods, he is aghast to learn that nearly all of the townsfolk have met the devil and are
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes point that the religious groups of the time
silenced the very gift of free will that had been given to mankind. Their plans to rid the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short
story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doing, not in the believing. Therefore, evil done in the name of good is still evil nonetheless. "His
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