Young Goodman Brown (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1835
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The 1690's
- Setting: Salem, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Young Goodman Brown, Faith, A man met in the woods
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman, Allegory
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, Guilt, Faith, Corruption, Devils or demons, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Salem, MA
The Story
Young Goodman Brown is bidding his wife, Faith, farewell at their front door. It is evening in the village, and he is going on a guilty errand, a fact that he clearly recognizes and deplores but an errand he has chosen to undertake nevertheless. Taking a route into the forest, he meets, as by appointment, an older man who bears a fatherly resemblance to both Brown and the Devil.
Brown initially considers his decision to go on his unholy errand an exceptional one, but he soon discovers that other presumably exemplary villagers are on the same path, including, to...
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See Also:
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Nathaniel Hawthorne (Short Fiction)Nathaniel Hawthorne (Long Fiction)Nathaniel Hawthorne (Dictionary of World Biography)Nathaniel Hawthorne (Identities and Issues)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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