Comparison between young goodman brown and The Ministers black veil

In the two short stories, “Young Goodman Brown” and, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a romantic view of people and sin. Hawthorne himself is the great grandson of one of the judges who accused people mistakenly at the Salem Witch Trials. Because of this memory, he is tormented by morals, and most of his literature is romance, where the setting is dark and gloomy and the main character does not give in to evil, even though he or she experiences its powerful prevalence. Apart from the theme and setting distinct to his works, his writing style depicts the age and place his stories are written. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories are very similar in structure and in message, and can be distinguished as his stories by a mature reader through comparison.

The most evident and clear resemblance in both stories is that both have a dark and gloomy setting. In fact both stories could be interpreted being in the same town. The town is very religious, ex...