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 Birthmark In many of Nathaniel Hawthornes short stories, he creates references with either a malicious or monstrous feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. Many would say he targets woman without justification. Therefore a reader may fork up him to be a misogynist. In the story Rapaccinnis Daughter he uses Beatrice as a carrier of a deadly poison. In Young Goodman Brown he targets Faith as the character who is lost to the Devil. In the stories Rappaccinis Daughter, and The Birthmark, Hawthorne also uses men as transmitters of evil illicitly. The men involved in the stories have their own flaws which brook to the flaws of the women in their lives. Ultimately, Hawthorne in the cases above can be seen as a misogynist who directs his maliciousness on only women, yet he also uses phallic characters as vile transmitters of evil, therefore he is not a misogynist and targets both se xes 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 contain enough self-control, or faith to refuse the duty of the Devil. Even with the emotional plea from her husband, Look up to heaven, and resist the wicked atomic number 53, (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 symbolize a deeper significance, in this case, it is to can the hypocrisy of the Puritan people, that is, Puritans are really not as pure as we all think, they also contain evil characteristics, in this case, exploited at night. We cannot justify Hawthornes usage of Faith as misogyny, in that woman were not considered equal in status to men in the early 16th and later(prenominal) centuries. Also, with the history of witchcraft during the puritan era, it can be seen appropriate that Hawthorne