Nathaniel Hawthorne

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This paper examines how, in the two works ?My Kinsman, Major Molineux? and ?Young Goodman Brown? by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters Robin and Young Goodman Brown go on personal journeys to seek their individual goals. Robin seeks a kinsman who can help him establish his future livelihood, and Brown searches to restore his faith and the evil in his heart. It shows how they each reach a goal, yet not the one expected.

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"In this new urban world, Robin wonders at the "gay and gallant figures" who wear ?garments of showy colors, enormous periwigs, gold-laced hats, and silver-hilted swords." He sees ?imitators of the European fine gentleman of the period, (treading) jauntily along, half dancing to the fashionable tunes which they hummed, and making Robin ashamed of his quiet and natural gait." He even confuses a prostitute for a maiden. Hawthorne thus depicts the old and the new ways of life in New England, and they are very different, especially from what Robin has experienced."

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