Category: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Dark Duality of Romanticism in ‘Young Goodman Brown’
Peoples inherent personality traits come from their core values. Within these values exists an innate duality of both light and dark characteristics; this coincides with the ideas of Dark Romanticism, which aim to normalize the darker desires of peoples minds. Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown embodies Dark Romantic ideals like innate evil and sin, which reveal…