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Essay Galaxy - Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited by the Devil
Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited by the Devil
In Puritan Massachusetts the key word was suspicion. In order to be accepted, by
the community, you had to be a member of the "elect," destined for a spot in the
eternity of heaven. In order to be member of this elite group of "selected"
individuals you had to be free of sin and evil. It goes without saying, that you
could never be caught conjuring the devil, as is illustrated by the horrors of
the infamous Salem witch trials. In Young Goodman Brown, and Rappacini's
Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays two different ways of soliciting or being
solicited by the devil. The final scenes in both of these stories although
similar in nature, are actually conflicting in essence, and show the two adverse
wa....
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