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    <title>Young Goodman Brown Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Young Goodman Brown Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In allegories, characters are representative of certain traits.  For...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In allegories, characters are representative of certain traits.  For instance, Goody Cloyse, the Catechist, and Deacon Gookin--names of real people who participated in the Salem Witchcraft Trials--go into the forest and participate in the Black Mass.  Thus, they represent the sanctimonious hypocrites among the Puritans.  Young Goodman Brown's name is, of course, ironic.  He certainly perceives himself as good, but his rejection of his...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[jabkab,
Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is one of the most...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[jabkab,
Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is one of the most anthologized and critiqued short stories. It has a great deal of ambiguity, but nonetheless, falls into the category of allegory.
According to enotes in the reference section, allegory is:

Allegory - an extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else. It usually involves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:43:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the allegorical elements in Young Goodman Brown?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the allegorical elements in Young Goodman Brown?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:09:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's difficult to know ... I think just about everything he saw or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's difficult to know ... I think just about everything he saw or thinks he saw in the woods that night surprised him.  Something he says at the end, however, shows wonder, if not surprise:

"That old woman taught me my catechism," said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.

He finds it incomprehensible that the woman who taught him his catechism could possibly be there in the forest that late at night.  He...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:36:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Goodman Brown surprised to encounter the second traveler on the road,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Goodman Brown surprised to encounter the second traveler on the road, or does he seem to expect him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:18:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At some point in our lives, all of us must leave our "F/faith"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At some point in our lives, all of us must leave our "F/faith" (innocence/naieve understanding of the world) and go on a journey into "darkness" /ambiguous reality ("twixt now and sunrise").  On this journey we learn, among other things, that all is not as we thought.  This is particularly true in Brown's case of the people he knew and held in unrealistic/naieve esteem.   He thought they were angels; they were only people.  Of course, we...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:16:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Young Goodman Brown feels that he must test the power of good, so he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Young Goodman Brown feels that he must test the power of good, so he attends the Black Mass one night.  This, in fact, is the night on which he must "tarry away" from his new bride, Faith.  Certainly, the symbolism of her name cannot be lost upon the reader of Hawthorne's story.
This statement also underscores the theme of Guilt vs. Innoncence and Good vs. Evil in "Young Goodman Brown."  For, Goodman in his religious complacency believes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:16:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[i think he means that he needs to be away from faith, his wife, this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i think he means that he needs to be away from faith, his wife, this night.  'of all nights in the year' means perhaps that he is home most other nights, or that tonight is significant because he knows that he is meeting the devil.  for example if i were meeting someone important i might say 'of all the nights this year, tonight i have to be away from the house.'  'must i tarry away from thee' means must i be away from you.  he is meeting...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:55:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does young Goodman Brown mean when he says "of all nights in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does young Goodman Brown mean when he says "of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee"? 
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:42:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would also add that the woods are uncertain, secluded, secretive, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would also add that the woods are uncertain, secluded, secretive, and full of different types of things that lead to many possible things occuring there. Hence, his journey into "the woods" also represents a journey into the forces of evil which can be easily described as the woods themselves.
The fact that the story begins and ends in Salem is a symbol of the starting point, and then the endpoint of his life after his "visit" to the woods....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:03:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Salem is the seemingly ideal Puritan community in which Young Goodman...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Salem is the seemingly ideal Puritan community in which Young Goodman Brown lives. Salem is populated with such characters as "the good old minister," "Old Deacon Goodkin," "Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian," Goodman Brown himself, and Faith, Goodman Brown's pure and pretty wife.
As their names imply, the inhabitants of Salem are "Good" - they are upright Christians and morally spotless. Their seemingly pure natures, however, bely...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:42:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The two distinct settings are Salem and the woods. What are the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The two distinct settings are Salem and the woods. What are the differences between these settings?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:26:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
From the beginning of the story, it is clear to the reader that Young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 
From the beginning of the story, it is clear to the reader that Young Goodman Brown realizes his errand is for an evil purpose. Based solely on this, one could assume that Brown understands that his meeting would be with the devil is a real possibility. Perhaps Brown’s first real indication that his companion is truly the devil occurs when he sees the nature of the figure’s staff. The crooked staff appears as if it possessed the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:17:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As Hawthorne’s story opens, the reader sees Goodman Brown departing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As Hawthorne’s story opens, the reader sees Goodman Brown departing his home to go into the forest on his errand. The conversation that Goodman Brown and his wife, Faith, have merely expresses her regret that he has to leave when he does. It is not until Goodman Brown, having departed his home and heading through town, looks back at his wife still standing in their doorway. Seeing her standing there, Goodman Brown reflects on their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:55:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” though written in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” though written in 1835, takes place in a Puritan society, recalling his New England past. One day, Goodman Brown tells his wife, Faith, that he is going into the forest on an errand. While on his errand in the forest, Brown encounters a man who resembles him in his appearance and in his social status. Carrying a crooked staff, the man clearly represents the devil, though Goodman Brown fails to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:41:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne often simultaneously...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne often simultaneously fascinates and confuses students.  Young Goodman Brown has kept covenant with the devil and follows him to the coven to bring forth the new converts.  His feelings are climaxed when Faith and her pink ribbons appear, but he never consciously does anything to break the spell of evil.  He simply awakens somewhere outside of his home closer to the village but still within the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:30:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," by what act does Goodman...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," by what act does Goodman Brown break the evil spell?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:46:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[miroo,
Hawthorne's “Young Goodman Brown” is his most frequently...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[miroo,
Hawthorne's “Young Goodman Brown” is his most frequently anthologized story and probably the most often misunderstood. You should probably have a brief refresher on the Salem witchcraft trials, in which neighbor suspected neighbor and children recklessly accused innocent old women. The hand of the devil was always nearby, and. In revealing to Brown the secret wickedness of all the people he knew and trusted, the story seems to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:06:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Multiple readings of "Young Goodman Brown" provide the reader with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Multiple readings of "Young Goodman Brown" provide the reader with increased allegory, but here are a few that I find most striking.  Goodman Brown has already failed his conscious by taking the trip into the forest that night.  He knew with whom he was dealing and he knew he did not need to be doing it.  His Faith held him back awhile (His wife on one hand- his literal faith on the other.
Goodman Brown tries to do the bare minimum of his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the moral allegory and moral lesson in "Young Goodman Brown"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the moral allegory and moral lesson in "Young Goodman Brown" Hawthorne was trying to convey here?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 01:58:11 PST</pubDate>
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