Part one of term paper
Since early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows it or not, tries to put man in the same position as God. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and O’Connor’s “A Go ...

Part two of term paper
... this moral self-deception leads to their downfall. In the course of examining these two very similar characters, the authors quietly give us a lesson in our own morality. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings often dealt with the extremely puritanical society of the eighteenth century America. This time in our history, we did not except differences, especially theological differences. This was the time of the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts. At Salem, many people were executed because they ...