Nathaniel Hawthorne: Insecurity, Judgment, and Revenge

Most people dream of a utopian society, a society which cannot exist because people lean toward the universal problems of judgment, and revenge while struggling with guilt, jealousy and insecurity. Nathaniel Hawthorne unquestionably articulates his acquaintance with these human characteristics and documents his insights in several thought provoking short stories and novels where many of the characters either succumb or meet the challenge of dealing with theses problems. He exposes these flaws of humanity in …

…eaving the individual soul causing death when the fire of revenge smolders away. All the consequences from these flaws of humanity make utopian society or the puritan society lead to disappointment because unreasonable seclusion, gratuitous death, and excessive revenge directs its downfall. In the well know works of Hawthorne, he unclothes the world and way people live, showing the naked truth for all to recognize and learn how to live without succumbing the flaws themselves.