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        <title><![CDATA[Good question.  The depth of this story relies on the uncertainty of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/what-significance-dream-like-quality-story-114391</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Good question.  The depth of this story relies on the uncertainty of the forest meeting.  The end of the story paints a dismal picture of Goodman Brown's life after the forest encounter.  He spends the rest of his days quite cynical about the people in his community and their devotion to God.  He is unsure of himself, his wife, and his religion.  What happens is we, as readers, get to attempt to decipher whether or not the main event in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:06:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the dream-like quality of the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the dream-like quality of the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:56:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do "A Model of Christian Charity" and "Young Goodman Brown" compare...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/how-do-model-christian-charity-young-goodman-brown-111447</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do "A Model of Christian Charity" and "Young Goodman Brown" compare and contrast?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:06:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I find the most compelling passage to be the conversation that Young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I find the most compelling passage to be the conversation that Young Goodman Brown has with the devil in the forest, particularly the devil's assertion that he has "been as well acquainted with [Young Goodman Brown's] family as with ever a one among the Puritans." For me, this passage gets at the heart of the story. There's nothing wrong with reading Hawthorne's piece as a story of suspense or of the supernatural, but I like to read it as a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:07:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What passage is significant in the Young Goodman Brown story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What passage is significant in the Young Goodman Brown story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:17:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a great question.
The detail in your question ("the man with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a great question.
The detail in your question ("the man with the staff") makes me think of the famous photographs of Freud with his cigar (see the second source for one such image). Both staff and cigar serve as a characterizing feature somehow and suggest a sort of phallic authority or mastery or, at the very least, a tool of self-discovery. The man with the staff in Hawthorne's story, after all, makes a second walking stick out of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not certain that there are seven stops on Young Goodman Brown's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm not certain that there are seven stops on Young Goodman Brown's journey. Perhaps it's a matter of how you read the story. I can only see five stops right now, and two of those stops seem minor and come very early in the story:
1. At the threshold: In the first paragraph, Young Goodman Brown pauses and sticks his head back in through the doorway to give his wife a quick kiss.
2. Again, at the threshold: In the sixth paragraph, about to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:14:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I respectfully disagree with the previous poster.
In my view, Young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I respectfully disagree with the previous poster.
In my view, Young Goodman Brown does not exhibit the ability to confront the evil and hypocrisy around him and, for all his troubles, does not emerge any stronger or wiser at the end of the story.
Rather than confront the evil and hypocrisy around him, the title character hides from that very confrontation. See, for example, this instance of an encounter in the woods:
"Goodman Brown heard the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:50:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a good question. The story "Young Goodman Brown" opens with a...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/what-do-you-see-real-reason-young-goodman-browns-108979</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a good question. The story "Young Goodman Brown" opens with a strange exchange between the title character and his wife, Faith. Faith wants him to stay home, but he replies that he has business in the woods at night:

"My love and my Faith," replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:36:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Young Goodman Brown reacts very coldly toward his wife and the people in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Young Goodman Brown reacts very coldly toward his wife and the people in his town after he's returned from his strange trip into the woods.
Why does he react strangely? He believes that he's seen pretty much everyone he knows -- including the most virtuous old woman of his town, the one who taught him his catechism  -- on their way to or participating in the satanic mass in the forest.
Is he justified in acting this way? If what Young...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:24:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the "Young Goodman Brown" how does Goodman Brown react to his wife...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the "Young Goodman Brown" how does Goodman Brown react to his wife and others upon his return to Salem? Why? Is he justified in acting this way?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:22:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you see as the real reason for Young Goodman Brown's journey in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do you see as the real reason for Young Goodman Brown's journey in "Young Goodman Brown"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:12:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great Early American writer, is responsible for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great Early American writer, is responsible for introducing the symbolism that became a signature element of the American novel.  Such a symbolic presence is the old man in "Young Goodman Brown" who accompanies Goodman Brown into the forest primeval. As he leaves his wife Faith, Goodman beholds "the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree."  This man has a staff which "bore the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:15:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interpet the description of the following passage, explaining why...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Interpet the description of the following passage, explaining why Hawthorne uses the word "uncertain."
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:52:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[to the guy above me. thats a very good response but in the story it says...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/what-does-pink-ribbon-symbolizes-how-correlates-7651</link>
        <description><![CDATA[to the guy above me. thats a very good response but in the story it says the pink ribbons on her cap.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne's allegorical short story "Young Goodman Brown" is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/what-location-story-106731</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hawthorne's allegorical short story "Young Goodman Brown" is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the location of the famed witch trials of the late 17th century. Hawthorne himself was born in Salem, coming from a Puritan background, and the author's guilt over his ancestors' participation in the witch hunts--one was a judge who presided over the trials--inspired this tale. Goodman Brown ventures forth from the town and travels into the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:09:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the location for the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the location for the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:28:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, the author refers to dreams,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, the author refers to dreams, What is the meaning of the dreams in these stories?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:16:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most apparent answer is that the "devilish Indian" links the early...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The most apparent answer is that the "devilish Indian" links the early Americans' fear of both the Natives and the supposed evils of the forest.  The early Puritans linked the darkness and primitiveness to Satan.  It was said that men and women lured to the forest were also lured into Satan's power.  Therefore the Natives who lived in the forest, were seen as evil and impure.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:01:08 PST</pubDate>
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Analyze allusions to the "devilish Indian" in Young Goodman Brown]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 
Analyze allusions to the "devilish Indian" in Young Goodman Brown]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:46:00 PST</pubDate>
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