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Similarities Between Young Goodman Brown And The Minister's Black Veil

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Faith in “Young Goodman Brown”, Georgiana in “The Birthmark”, and Elizabeth in “The Minister’s Black Veil” are all very important characters throughout each of these stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. They are not only each a large part of their own individual story, but they are used especially to reveal truth about the main male characters to which they are with. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Faith is the person to which Goodman Brown holds on to when he starts to be apprehensive and question the moral goodness of the people around him. Faith reveals that Goodman is testing his spiritual faith. When Faith had a dream of what had warned her of what is to be done that night, Goodman brushed it off. He spoke of how he would not go on, and that he needed to finish the journey to which he was on. Hawthorne shows how submissive and obedient Faith is by having her say nothing more to him. She respects his decisions, and even though she does not agree with the decision that he made, she will stand by his side no matter the consequences that would come to her. …show more content…

Georgiana had a birthmark that her husband, Aylmer, absolutely hate. He felt as if the birthmark made her look awful and ugly. Hawthorne writes that, “he might have felt his affection heightened by the prettiness of this mimic hand…….but seeing her otherwise so perfect, he found this one defect grow more and more intolerable with every moment of their united lives” (Hawthorne, 341). Aylmer feels this way and looks at his wife in such a terrible way, yet Georgiana stays and obeys what Aylmer says for the pure fact that he is her husband. Her loyalty was most important, just like Faith, no matter the

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