Essay On Gender Roles In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s opinion of female authors wasn’t exactly a pleasant one. He thought female authors were more renowned than male authors and pretty much showed hatred and jealousy toward them because of that. In both of Hawthorne’s works, Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, the women didn’t play the stronger roles and men were usually the leading characters. In Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne seems to make Faith dependent on her husband Young Goodman Brown, and made Brown always worried about Faith. As Brown states, “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand”. (387) This statement shows how worried Brown is about Faith and throughout the story on his journey, Faith is all he worries about and in the end his worries