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 to be satirical of people that practice moral self-deception. People, who preach of kindness and love, but put themselves on a pedestal above other people. In the case of Goodman Brown and the grandmother, this moral self-deception le....

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