Monster Essays - An Analysis of Hawthorne's Short Stories
An Analysis of Hawthorne's Short Stories
In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, he creates
characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a
more allegorical meaning. Many would say he targets woman without
justification. Therefore a reader may interpret him to be a misogynist.
In the story �Rapaccinni's 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 �Rappaccini's Daughter,� and �The
Birthmark,� Hawthorne also uses men as trans....
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