Natural_Depravity

Natural Depravity Natural Depravity Nathaniel Hawthorne uses natural depravity in quite a few of his short stories. Natural depravity is the belief that man is born with some evil in him regardless of whom Hawthorne may be talking about. This is shown very well through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown. Natural depravity is easily shown through Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown. Goodman Brown goes on a journey through the forest with the devil. Goodman Brown in having second thoughts on this journey because he is feeling as though he is bringing down his family name by going with the devil. The devil reassures him that this is act is not going to bring his family name down by saying to goodman, brown, through, depravity, natural, young, name, family, story, shown, short, hawthorne, devil, very, thought, quotation, man, journey, hawthorne’s, going, evil, born, nathaniel, woman, whom, war, village, thoughts, though, tarnished, talking, strongly, streets, stories, smartly