Romantic Criticism Of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Hawthorne’s emphasis on setting the mood of the literature makes the short story Romantic literature. For example, the interaction between Brown’s imagination and nature surpasses all logic and reason, thus giving the story a distinctly dark and mysterious mood. At one point in the forest, Brown even states, “What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow?" (Hawthorne). This paranoia is the smoking gun that says that Brown’s imagination is running the show rather than logic. Additionally, Young Goodman Brown is placed at the center of all life and experience, which is another trait of Romantic literature. The majority of all scenes revolve around Brown’s exposure to visions shown by the devil and the narrator even suggests that the entire