Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe“Fearing death, gentlemen, is nothing more than believing oneself wise when one is not, thinking one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death is not the greatest of all goods for man, and yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils." Socrates, one of the Greek philosophers of 400 BC, asks a reasonable question about the fear of death. Death affects people and characters very differently in life. In the world of literary works two well-known authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe present two works that both address the effects of this same fear of death. In the next pages we will see that there are many connections with the works that these two have made in the way in which their characters are influenced by the fear of death, how this is influenced by the life of the author and the way in which their fear of death it is influenced by the fear of death. situations and the fear of death affect the rest of their lives. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe were both nineteenth-century American authors. Both were part of the Romantic movement, the two works we will look at are considered part of the dark romanticism genre. The first work we will look at is “Young Goodman Brown” which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in 1835 and the other is “The Fall of The House of Usher” which Edger Allen Poe wrote in 1839. The works depict the main character on a journey. They also share that the settings are dark or even that there is a lingering evil in the time frame. Having a feeling of doom or fear that something is going wrong and that the place they are in might contain something very supernatural that could affect the characters in a life-altering way. A summary of “Young goo...... middle of paper. .....s Young Goodman Brown." Explicator 65.3 (2007): 143-145. Academic research completed. Web. 4 April 2014. Predmore, Richard. "'YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN' Night Journey into the Forest." Journal Of Analytical Psychology 22.3 (1977): 250-257. Web. 4 April 2014. Rollason, Christopher. "The Character of Phantasm: 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges." Tertius.'." Atlantis (0210-6124) 31.1 (2009): 9-22. Academic research completed. Web. April 4, 2014.Tritt, Michael. "'Young Goodman Brown' and the Psychology Of Projection." Studies In Short Fiction 23.1 (1986): 113. Academic research completed. Web. April 4, 2014. Zanger, Jules. "`Young Goodman Brown' and `A White Heron': Correspondences and Illuminations." Papers On Language and Literature 26.3 (1990): 346. Academic research completed. Network. April 4. 2014.