Good vs. Evil The role of nature and "the wilderness" is a prevalent theme appearing time and again in many pieces of American Literature. The wilderness is a major aspect of both Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." The theme the wilderness plays in these two works has some similarities yet is very different. In Mary Rowlandson's work it is a place that mainly houses life and goodness. The …showed first 75 words of 1114 total…

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