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Romanticism and Realism in adolescent Goodman Brown Herman Melville in Hawthorne and His Mosses, (The Literary World August 17, 24, 1850) has a illustrious comment on Hawthornes romantic zeal And now, my countrymen, as an clarified author, of your own flesh and blood,--an unimitating, and perhaps, in his way, an inimitable man--whom separate can I commend to you, in the first place, than Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is one of the new, and far better generation of your writer. The smell of your beeches and hemlocks is upon him your own broad prairies are in his soulfulness and if you travel away inland into his deep and noble spirit, you will meet the far roar of his Niagara. Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown includes both the inimitable, nature-oriented style of romanticism as well as elements of realism. M. H. Abrams defines romantic themes in salient(ip) writers of this school in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as being five in number (1) innovati ons in the materials, forms and style (2) that the discipline involve a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings (3) that external nature be a persistent subject with a sensuous cultivation and accuracy in its description (4) that the reader be invited to identify the supporter with the author himself and (5) that this be an age of new beginnings and high possibilities for the person (177-79). permit us examine Young Goodman Brown in light of the above. premier of all, Hawthorne was a real innovator in his use of the psychological preliminary to characters within a baloney. A. N. Kaul considers Hawthorne preeminently a psychological writer burrowing, to his furthest ability, into the depths of our common nature, for the purposes of psychological romance. . . . (2). Q. D. Leavis says Hawthorne has imaginatively recreated for the reader that Calvinist sense of sin. . . . still in Hawthorne, by a wonderful feat of transmutation, it has no religious significance, it is as a p sychological state that it is explored (37). The reader experiences most of the story through the eyes and feelings of the protagonist, Goodman. In the following passage the reader is allowed, as is typical, to read his thoughts Poor little Faith thought he, for his heart smote him. What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand She talks of dreams, too.