Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Ambitious Guest addresses the idea that fixating one’s thought on the legacy that an individual’s ambitions will create, results in the seizure of the interplay between ambition and legacy, forming an unreliable connection from ambition to legacy due to the lack of effort put into one’s ambitions and the excessive focus on the legacy that said ambitions would create. Such is portrayed through “The Young Man”, a character who sets his ambition to be gloriously remembered around the globe once death overcomes him, yet shows absence of effort in fulfilling said ambition, quoted in The Young Man’s “Yearning desire” to not be “forgotten in the grave”, a desire which would transform into glory, one that “was to beam on
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Furthermore, the absence of his efforts to fulfill his legacy, as well as the seizure of interplay between that and ambition further exhibits itself in the gloomy memoir of his casualty. The Young Man, expressed in the memoir as “the high-souled youth, with his dream of Earthly Immortality”, who would later end up with “his name and person utterly unknown” and “his history, way of life, plans”, left “a mystery never to be solved”, rendering his death and his existence “equally a doubt.” An account which verifies that the “high souled” Young Man’s catastrophic failure in fulfilling his legacy, symbolized as “earthly immortality” suggests that although The Young Man was a “high-souled youth” with keen ambitions and dreams, he would still pass with a his existence “equally a doubt”, quotations that state no matter how avid or content an individual’s ambitions may be, their desires cannot be achieved if the action or effort fulfill their ambitions were absent. Therefore, one can conclude that The Young Man’s lack of effort, harmful to his high desires, would lead to the consequence of him leaving earth with no traces of existence, and ultimately, no legacy left behind for others to experience. Therefore, the
Furthermore, the absence of his efforts to fulfill his legacy, as well as the seizure of interplay between that and ambition further exhibits itself in the gloomy memoir of his casualty. The Young Man, expressed in the memoir as “the high-souled youth, with his dream of Earthly Immortality”, who would later end up with “his name and person utterly unknown” and “his history, way of life, plans”, left “a mystery never to be solved”, rendering his death and his existence “equally a doubt.” An account which verifies that the “high souled” Young Man’s catastrophic failure in fulfilling his legacy, symbolized as “earthly immortality” suggests that although The Young Man was a “high-souled youth” with keen ambitions and dreams, he would still pass with a his existence “equally a doubt”, quotations that state no matter how avid or content an individual’s ambitions may be, their desires cannot be achieved if the action or effort fulfill their ambitions were absent. Therefore, one can conclude that The Young Man’s lack of effort, harmful to his high desires, would lead to the consequence of him leaving earth with no traces of existence, and ultimately, no legacy left behind for others to experience. Therefore, the