Imperfect Characters of Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter and The Birthmark In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories, he creates characters with mischievous or evil traits to convey to the reader a more allegorical meaning. Many would say it targets women without justification. Therefore a reader might interpret him as misogynistic. In the story "Rapaccinni's Daughter" he uses Beatrice as the carrier of a deadly poison. In "Young Goodman Brown" he targets Faith as the character lost to the Devil. In the stories "Rapaccini's Daughter" and "The Birthmark", Hawthorne also uses men as illicit transmitters of evil. The men involved in the stories have their own flaws that contribute to the flaws of the women in their lives. Ultimately, Hawthorne in the above-mentioned cases can be seen as a misogynist who directs his evil only at women, but also uses male characters as vile transmitters of evil, so he is not a misogynist and targets both genders equally. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith, Young Goodman Brown's wife is a character who loses her faith and submits to the Devil. Hawthorne, in this case, directly uses faith as the bearer of a flaw. That is, he does not have enough self-control or faith to refuse the Devil's call. Even with her husband's emotional plea: "Look to heaven and resist the wicked" (1590), Faith cannot resist the Devil's temptation and feels "an uncertain pain" (1587) after submitting to him. The character of Faith that Hawthorne portrays is characterized by uncertainty and a lack of self-control. Faith is a good example of how Hawthorne uses a woman to symbolize a deeper meaning, in this case, it is to evoke the hypocrisy of the Puritan people, that is, Puritans are not as pure as we all think, they also contain evil characteristics, in this case, exploited at night. We cannot justify Hawthorne's use of faith as misogyny, as women were not considered equal in status to men in the early 16th century and in subsequent centuries. Furthermore, with the history of witchcraft during the Puritan era, it may be deemed appropriate that Hawthorne