Comparing Nathaniel Hawthorne and Tim O'Brien

In Hawthorne’s book of short sketches, he uses the dream to give an idea about how (man mainly Puritans) truly act. The story of Young Goodman Brown is a prime example of how the dream reveals these personalities. In the story, Young Goodman Brown has dreamt about leaving his wife, Faith, and going deep into the darkness of the woods at midnight. Leaving Faith was a way of saying that he was actually leaving his wife and abandoning faith to god at the same time as going deep into the dark meant that he was goi

The writings of Tim O’Brien and Nathaniel Hawthorne show the way humans deal with dreams, conscience, imagination, and emotion to show inner feelings. Tim O’Brien mainly focused on emotion to bring to surface mans inner self and feelings, allows the reader to put himself in the characters place and to be able to visualize what is happening. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s use of imagination shows how dreams can affect a person and change them from being the same they used to be. His writings also throw mans conscience into the picture and demonstrate how the conscience can shape someone. The uses of these items are all good ideas to put into a story to draw the reader in. They provide good descriptions and help the reader understand what is actually happening in the story.

Hawthorne also uses man’s conscience to allow his characters to do the right thing. At the end of Young Goodman Brown, when his dream of the congregation in the forest is over, he can no longer look at the town’s people with the same perception as he used to. His conscience had led him to knowing their true selves and how they were only acting spiritual on the outside of the forest in the day and how they change to a different person in the dark forest. O’Brien says that when Young Goodman Brown was in church on Sun

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