Franklin V Hawthorne

Franklin vs Hawthorne In the excerpts from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two authors utilize language to display their varying views on sins and imperfections of a person. Franklin’s own experience and the analogy of the speckled ax portrays his acceptance of sins and flaws as a part of life with the virtue of hard work as a balance; on the contrary, through his allegory …

…deserves the blessing of the “light”- the rest of the audience are just worthy of “black(ness).” For sinners, the supposedly universal concept of “sunlight” proves out of reach. In conclusion, the varying views of Franklin and Hawthorne reflect their experience and understanding of human abilities. Franklin believes in an idealistic world of hard workers with occasional mistakes and miscalculations; yet, Hawthorn’s utopian world of purity executes sinners with no chance of compensation.