Diversity Of Hawthorne's Writings In "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", And "The Birthmark"

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that Goodman Brown is not such a good man and
later Faith shows us just as much false character. Goodman and Faith are not
the only characters that are not all they seem to be. We come to meet more
characters in the short story that are superficial as is the village itself.
Goodman Brown leaves the bright, warm, goodness of his village to make a journey
in the woods to meet a stranger. A good place to meet a stranger would be
these surrounding woods of Salem for it is here that described by Nathaniel
Hawthorne that "He had taken a dreary road,darkened by all the gloomiest trees
of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through,
and closed immediately behind." and like the scheming mind of an evil person
the dark woods leads one down the wrong pathway.

The woods are not an allusion as was the village, the woods are
exactly what they seem to be therefore the characters met inside the woods will
be as shady as the woods themselves. ...

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who believe themselves to be good are not and those who do not
are.

" Ethan Brand" is a different sort of story that will take place in
the side of a mountain where a man and his son and one particular a llimekiln
stoaker enter the scene. Visualized to us by Hawthorne Bartram and his son are
sitting by the kiln, Bartram the steady worker burns limestone and talks to his
son about Ethan Brand. Ethan Brand is a mystery and is representative of the
people who are not understood or who may be the outcasts of society. Ethan
Brand was a mystery to his townspeople who by leaving the daily routine of
life and discontinuing the collective society was branded an outcast and ...

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