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With many different strategies to criticize The American Dream, Nathaniel most notable strategy was to use his characters in his literary works to criticize the idea of The American Dream. For example in My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he used the strategy of using his character to investigate the darker side of The American Dream.This was nor Nathaniel’s first or last attempt of using this successful strategy throughout his literacy books.This strategy illustrated his negative opinion of focusing on the weakness of The American Dream

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

is a symbolist more than a realist, and YGB is an allegory -- the entire story is an extended metaphor representing one thing in the guise of another. Surface narrative that gives one meaning, but a second meaning underneath. Characters are personifications of abstract qualities (Goodman Brown takes leave of his "Faith"). Other characters represent institutions: church (Deacon), school (Goody).

1. When do you know it's an allegory?

2. Is the story dream or reality, or something in-between? What evidence do you have for either?

3. What does the forest symbolize in the story? Why important that the action in the story happens there?

4. Which is more "real" in the story, good or evil?

5. What is his "sin"? What would he be granted at the "communion"?

6. Is it New England's moral universe that changes in the story or Brown's?

7. Is Brown finally a "Goodman"?

8. What questions do you have?

Initiation
Both stories describe the experience of immature, arrogant young men; both underestimate the impediments in their respective paths.In both, the voice, third-person omniscient, allows to keep a distance from characters, present them ambivalently. Robin is a "shrewd" youth, when we sense he's not so. The innkeeper asks Robin, "From the country, I presume, sir (795).Robin is also a bumpkin to make him the opposite ofMM, who Robin supposes is a well-respected gentleman.However, when we see the Major being tarred and feathered--whether it was a dream or reality--we realize the Major is, in fact, lower and less respected than Robin.Why such a Bumpkin?Because it's an initiation story, but is also investigating the darker side of the American dream, putting personal ambition before responsibility.
Dream and Reality
In both, all the characters are reassembled at the end, kind of a "This is your life" or a trial, as in a witch trial.Both are of humble standing, and both leave their pure and innocent homes to go on dark journeys to unfamiliar places where they meet odd strangers, and, in the end, they find out they did not know some people as well as they thought:YGB's wife Faith and Robin's kinsman.They were also unsure if they were dreaming when they see these people in very unexpected situations. "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a with meeting?" (812). And a gentleman inquires, "Well, Robin, are you dreaming?" (803).
Allegory
Dramatizes a larger experience or even meditation, which is interpretation. Complex questions rather than easy answers.The apparent naiveté of Robin and Young Goodman Brown are symbolic of the human tendency to be too trusting in a world of which is represented by the almost ever-present darkness in which both men carry their searches. The uncertainty of both Robin and Young Goodman Brown as to whether they were dreaming is symbolic or our inability to see things as they really exist.
Emerson
Writing to him was always allegorical, so perhaps he would see the brilliance. On the other hand, the truth that Goodman Brown discovers is that everything he loved and cherished is tainted and corrupt.His world is turned upside down, and all of this occurs in nature. Emerson would have also questioned YGB's "reliance" on other people. Emerson also said, "Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind"(497).The twist is that the language uses represents nature in an evil, tainted manner, therefore, possibly showing that humans are innately bad.He uses nature to paint a scene of doom, corruption, and wild abandonment.

" Hawthorne and His Mosses " by Melville.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne is a symbolist more than a realist, and YGB is an allegory -- the entire story is an extended metaphor representing one thing in the guise of another. Surface narrative that gives one meaning, but a second meaning underneath. Characters are personifications of abstract qualities (Goodman Brown takes leave of his "Faith").

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With the popularity of The Scarlet Letter, many authors were inspired to use similar techniques to criticise and weaken The American Dream. As inspired by The Scarlet Letter they used different characters, lens, and themes to efficiently criticize The American Dream. For example, the literacy play of The American Dream by Edward Albee; Edward used characters in his play to  successfully criticise The American Dream with characters. This shows how impactful Nathaniel’s literature was and how he focused on the evil and weakness of The American Dream.

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Nathaniel’s literary works largely revolved around the lens of the “Puritanical world”. Nathaniel used this lens to efficiently criticize and focus on the overall image and meaning of The American Dream. Nathaniel effectively used this concept in The Scarlet Letter, as the story went on Nathaniel efficiently criticized The American Dream without fully implying it. This shows how powerful his writing style was by successfully downplaying The American Dream

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Due to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Dark Romanticism writing style, which focused on the evil and the weakness of humanity illustrated. Demonstrates  that Nathaniel Hawthorne was not a supporter of the “American Dream”.