Messages Depicted in Hawthorne´s The Minister´s Black...

Nathaniel Hawthorn was an American novelist and short story writer. He is also a very interesting writer to analyze due to the psychological complexity of his work. Most of his works feature moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic Movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. More specifically, in â€Å"The Minister ´s Black Veil† and â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† these qualities and characteristics of his works are quite easy to see. In contrast with many other points of view and many other conclusions from different readers they might have after†¦show more content†¦And it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to the Indian village in King’s Phillip war’’ (611). Here is where Hawthorn star ted to point out the hypocrisy of the puritan religion and the sinful nature of all man. Later, Hawthorn continued to point out the hypocrisy of puritans at its outmost. â€Å"If it be as thou sayest,’replied Goodman Brown, I marvel they never spoke of these matters. Or, verily, I marvel not, seeing that the last rumor of the sort would have driven them from New-England’’ (612). Here Hawthorn tries to show how puritans kept their most dark sins hidden from even their most beloved, making them hypocrites towards God, society and their religious beliefs. As the story continues Goodman has an internal battle, he is trying not to continue through the dark forest, the only think that is giving him the strength to get out from there is the memory of his wife Faith. When he lifted his hands to pray, a cloud appeared upon his head, then he heard a voice uttering lamentations, it came from a woman, it was Faith’s voice. Then he heard a new scream from the same vo ice that drowned immediately into a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away. Those other voices were the voices of the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners which encourage Brown’s faith to disappear. â€Å"My Faith is gone!’ cried he,