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Essay Archive - 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,” Haw....
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