In the short story "The Celestial Railroad" Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays his views of the Ultimate questions one, four and five. "The Celestial Railroad" was written in 1843 as a part of Hawthorne's book of short stories "Mosses from an Old Manse". "The Celestial Railroad" is based on John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", only now a railroad has been built between the Celestial City and the city of Destruction providing a "faster" way to the Celestial City while bypassing the cross. Through the story Hawthorne views man as a depraved being who seeks nothing but what they see as pleasure and what they believe to be the truth. He shows man's problem with names of characters and their actions throughout the story. Hawthorne's solution to the problem is to take the path that Christian and other pilgrims have taken to reach the Celestial City yet he chooses not to do so himself.
In the Celestial Railroad Hawthorne's view of man is that he is a depraved being who when given a choice will......

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Title: Ceestial Railroad Analysis
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