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Nathaniel Hawthorn was an American novelist and short story writer. He is also a very interesting writer to analyze due to the psychological complexity of his work. Most of his works feature Puritan-inspired moral allegories. His works of fiction are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on humanity's inherent evil and sin, and his works often contain moral messages and deep psychological complexity. More specifically, in “The Minister´s Black Veil” and “Young Goodman Brown” these qualities and characteristics of his works are quite easy to see. In contrast to many other points of view and many other conclusions that different readers might draw after reading “The Minister's Black Veil” and “The Good Young Man Brown”, the purpose of this essay is to relate these two works of Hawthorn. These two works are connected to each other in an impressive way, if the reader pays close attention to the message and understands the symbols of the story he will immediately notice the similarities in the stories. After analyzing both allegories we can affirm that Biancospino tried to transmit and communicate through symbols the same messages in both stories but with a different approach. These messages were: the sinful nature of all men, the unstable Puritan religion that decays in its religious conviction and becomes a bit hypocritical and how a man (in both stories I believe he was referring to himself) can become a lonely person and unhappy after leaving faith behind. Young Goodman Brown is definitely one of the best examples you can take to understand an allegory. In Young Goodman Brown the main character, Young Goodman Brown (that's Hawtho......center of paper......represents Nathaniel Hawthorn at a different time in his life. I believe he started with “Young Goodman Brown” to characterize himself in the period of his growth (from childhood to adulthood), to explain in detail how he acquired and developed his feelings towards the Puritan religion as he grew up. Then, he later wrote “The Black Veil of minister”, where he is characterized again, and still has the same posture, ideas and beliefs towards the Puritan religion, but explains it from a different perspective, now as an adult “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister's Black Veil ” Hawthorn criticizes the hypocrisy of the Puritan religion, but using a different approach. How a man when his faith is lost because he is in constant awareness of evil becomes a hopeless, gloomy and unhappy man. humanity is that of committing sin.