During the eighteen-hundreds, a new literary movement began to emerge, known as “Romanticism”. This radical movement emphasized imagination and emotion. One of the most prodigious romantic authors of his time, Nathaniel Hawthorne, explored these new-founded themes in several of his short stories such as “Young Goodman Brown”, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”. Using his own unique themes, Hawthorne develops the the romantic themes of focus on the self and the individual, a profound love of nature, and a fascination with the supernatural, the mysterious, and the gothic.
In Hawthorne’s work, “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorne exhibits the romantic theme of focus on the individual while developing his own theme of the importance
In Hawthorne’s work, “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorne exhibits the romantic theme of focus on the individual while developing his own theme of the importance