Hawthorne's Pride of Intellect
Title: Hawthorne's Pride of Intellect
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 737 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hawthorne's Pride of Intellect
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 737 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hawthorns Pride of Intellect
Many of Hawthorne's characters wrap themselves in a pride of intellect. The characters
become victims of their pride and consequently suffer. Goodman Brown, from 'Young Goodman
Brown' and Hooper, from 'The Minister's Black Veil' are two characters that suffer from a pride
of intellect. Their pride causes them similar problems and they end up living similar lives, although
they came from different backgrounds.
Hooper and Goodman Brown both become isolated from
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suffer similar fates from their pride of intellect. It caused them to be drastically
separated from society, and to loose loved ones and their loving nature. Their pride of intellect
changed their whole lives. It can be seen as a cloak that the characters try to wrap themselves in to
escape human nature and mankind. It is obvious that the characters did not consider or were not
aware of the penalties of their intellectual pride.