The Themes in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown Essay -- Young Goodman B

The Themes in Young Goodman chocolate-brown In Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown the reader finds several themes. These will be discussed in this essay. Morse Peckham in The Development of Hawthornes Romanticism explains what he interprets Hawthornes main theme to be Once the self has been redeemed from society it can be explored in its own terms, and for this purpose Hawthorne demonstrable his peculiar use of emblematic allegory. . . . This technique, though Hawthornes is different from that of European writers, creates analogies between self and not-self, between personality and the worlds. . . .Henceforth Hawthornes theme is the redemption of the self through the acceptance and exploitation of what society terms the guilt of the individual but which to the Romantic is societys guilt (92). The interplay between the guilt of the individual, Goodman, and societys guilt, underlies all of Young Goodman Brown from commencement ceremony to end. In reading Hawthornes tal es, Herman Melville in Hawthorne and His Mosses (in Literary World, fantastic 17, 24, 1850) makes discoveries relevant to the themes Where Hawthorne is known, he seems to be deemed a pleasant writer, with a pleasant style,--a sequestered, harmless man, from whom any(prenominal) stocky and weighty thing would hardly be anticipated--a man who means no meanings. But there is no man, in whom humor and love, bid mountain peaks, soar to such a rapt height, as to receive the irradiations of the upper skies--there is no man in whom humor and love are developed in that high form called genius no such man can exist without also possessing, as the indispensable complement of these, a great, deep intellect, which drops down... ...The Return into Time Hawthorne. In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Martin, Terence Six Tales. In Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York Twayne Publishers Inc., 1965. Melville, Herman. Hawth orne and His Mosses, The Literary World August 17, 24, 1850. http//eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hahm.html Peckham, Morse. The Development of Hawthornes Romanticism. In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1996. Swisher, Clarice. Nathaniel Hawthorne a Biography. In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1996. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York Continuum publish Co., 1989.