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Similarities Between Young Goodman Brown And Masque Of The Red Death

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The resurgence of American literature during the Puritan era was chiefly influenced by the emergence of gothic fiction. Recognized as notorious authors of that century, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are glorified to this day as INSERT SMTH. Set in Puritan New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegory, “Young Goodman Brown,” introduces a strongly religious and respectable man, Goodman Brown, who journeys along a path of sin. Reflecting in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “Masque of the Red Death,” a young prince, Prince Prospero, is presented as a powerful figure who, in order to avoid a dangerous plague, holds a masquerade that represents a journey of life. Both stories convey a common link between life lessons of duality and separation;
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