Charles Brockden Brown Criticism Responses William H. Prescott argues that Brown’s purpose “seems to be to exhibit the soul in scenes of extraordinary interests,” and backs it up by saying the poem writing tools he uses as well as Brown looking “beneath the crust of society” to “detect the rich stories of romantic and poetic interest”(Prescott 4;2). Margaret Fuller goes on and on about Brown creating a female character who is feminine but strong and compares Brown and his character to that of another author similar to him and his female character. She concludes that Brown pin points the difference “of intellectual communication and of friendship” from the “hopes of early days” with “the relations of real live at present there is rarely more