Literary Analysis Of Hawthorne s The Old Town Of...

Cherry 1 Source Text Excerpt Analysis This old town of Salem-my native place, though I have dwelt much away from it, both in boyhood and mature years-possesses, or did possess, a hold on my affections, the force of which I have never realized during my seasons of actual residence. (6) Hawthorne shows that although he has moved away, his New England â€Å"soul and spirt† remain in Salem and he is still drawn to Salem and still struggles with some of the Puritan values that were instilled in him. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember. (6) Hawthorne’s analogy is used to explain his disdain for the stern morality and rigidity of the Puritans. He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. (7) Hawthorne’s narrator identifies more closely with the ancestor who embodied different traits, not just those of the Puritan Church, but of someone who was well-rounded, yet flawed in some of his beliefs and ideologies. Cherry 2 Source Text Excerpt Analysis A writer of story-books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation,-may that be? (8) he imagines his ancestors’ disdainful view of him as writers were looked down upon and he believes he will be viewed as unsuccessful, worthless and disgraceful. â€Å"This long connection of aShow MoreRelatedMost Dangerous Game vs. Young Goodman Brown Essay2278 Words   |  10 Pagesa. In the short story, â€Å"The Most Dangerous Game† the setting takes place in the early 1920’s after the First World War on a small tropical island somewhere in the Caribbean, known as Ship-Trap Island by the sailors. b. Whereas, in the short story, â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† the story is set in the late seventeenth century in Salem, a small town northeast of Boston in Massachusetts around the time of the Salem witch trials. II. The characters in both of these short stories have close similarities