Essay Archive - The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
The Use of Characters By Hawthorne and O'Connor to Teach Morality
Since early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows it or not, tries to put man in the same position as God. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, we are introduced to two characters that show this quality of hubris. Both short stories are supposed....
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