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Hawthorne’s Dark Romanticist Message Henry David Thoreau’s positive, transcendentalist view of human nature in Walden contrasts sharply with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s perspective. In the chapter “Where I Lived and What I Lived for,” Thoreau discusses humankind’s potential to become fully “awake,” describing the moral, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of being awake in a long passage that […]

Explain how Hawthorne’s dark romanticist message is reflected in the allegory and in Hawthorne’s description of Goodman Brown’s uncertain perceptions at certain points in the story.

Discuss the notion of vision, dream, sleep, allegories and dark romanticism as manifested in Young Goodman Browne.