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

The Themes in Young Goodman Brown In Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown the ref finds several themes. These will be discussed in this essay. Morse Peckham in The ontogenesis of Hawthornes Romanticism explains what he interprets Hawthornes main theme to be Once the self has been redeemed from club it stern be explored in its own terms, and for this purpose Hawthorne developed his peculiar use of emblematic every last(predicate)egory. . . . This technique, though Hawthornes is different from that of European writers, creates analogies between self and not-self, between character and the worlds. . . .Henceforth Hawthornes theme is the redemption of the self through the acceptance and using 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 beginning to end. In reading Hawthornes tales, Herman Melville in Hawthorne and His Mosses (in Literary foundation, August 17, 24, 1850) makes discoveries relevant to the themes Where Hawthorne is known, he seems to be deemed a nice writer, with a pleasant style,--a sequestered, harmless man, from whom any intricate and weighty affaire would hardly be anticipated--a man who means no meanings. and there is no man, in whom humor and love, like mountain peaks, lift 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, redact 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. Hawthorne 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 Publishing Co., 1989.