Flawed Characters of Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccinis Daughter, and The Birthmark :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Flawed Characters of Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccinis Daughter, and The nevus In many of Nathaniel Hawthornes short stories, he creates contributions with either a spiteful or evil feature to relay to the reader a more(prenominal) allegorical meaning. Many would say he targets woman without justification. Therefore a reader may interpret him to be a misogynist. In the tale Rapaccinnis Daughter he uses Beatrice as a carrier wave of a perverting poison. In Young Goodman Brown he targets corporate trust as the genius who is lost to the Devil. In the stories Rappaccinis Daughter, and The Birthmark, Hawthorne also uses work force as transmitters of evil illicitly. The men involved in the stories have their own flaws which contribute to the flaws of the women in their lives. Ultimately, Hawthorne in the cases above can be seen as a misogynist who directs his cattiness on only women, yet he also uses male purposes as vile transmitters of evil, therefore he is not a m isogynist and targets both(prenominal) sexes equally. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith, the wife of Young Goodman Brown is a character who loses her faith and submits to the Devil. Hawthorne, in this case directly uses faith as the carrier of a flaw. That is, she does not terminate enough self-importance-control, or faith to pooh-pooh the calling of the Devil. Even with the emotional plea from her husband, Look up to heaven, and balk the wicked one, (1590) Faith cannot resist the Devils temptation and has uncertain sorrow, (1587) after submitting to him. The character of Faith which Hawthorne portrays is one of uncertainty and one which has a lack of self control. Faith is a good example of how Hawthorne uses a woman to intend a deeper significance, in this case, it is to evoke the hypocrisy of the Puritan people, that is, Puritans are actually not as pure as we all think, they also contain evil characteristics, in this case, exploited at night. We cannot justify Ha wthornes usage of Faith as misogyny, in that woman were not considered equal in posture to men in the early 16th and later centuries. Also, with the history of witchery during the puritan era, it can be seen appropriate that Hawthorne