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Young Goodman Brown
In one of Dean Kootz's novels, a character declares that "perception is reality" and in the case of the character Young Goodman Brown this is certainly true. A proud, sanctimonious character, who...
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Young Goodman Brown
As Goodman Brown travels through the woods, he meets a man that the narrator says could have been an older version of Goodman. “They might have been taken for father and son.” This statement...
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Young Goodman Brown
An essay with five paragraphs usually consists of an introduction, three “body” paragraphs that include arguments and evidence, and a conclusion. The thesis is generally presented in the...
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Young Goodman Brown
As is characteristic of Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an ambiguity to his story, "Young Goodman Brown" that Hawthorne himself pronounces after Brown's experience in the forest: Had Goodman Brown...
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Young Goodman Brown
The main message of the story Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the fight between good and evil under the scope of detouring from one's faith and succumbing to the evils of life....
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Young Goodman Brown
The main similarity between the two stories is the idealistic protagonists in each. In The Birthmark, Aylmer arrogantly believes that he has the skill to perfect in his wife what nature had left...
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Young Goodman Brown
During Goodman Brown's journey into the forest to participate in the Black Mass, he comes across a man who resembles his father and the devil. The mysterious fellow traveler encourages Goodman...
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Young Goodman Brown
Yes, I believe that Goodman Brown returns from the ceremony with darkness in his soul. The question is, as you have indicated, does he have the darkness in his soul before that time? I think that...
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Young Goodman Brown
This short story is set in Salem Village, in Massachusetts, as we learn in the very first line. It takes place sometime after King Philip's War, which lasted from 1675 to 1678. The strange man...
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Young Goodman Brown
Early in the story, the protagonist, a young man called Goodman Brown by his Puritan community at the end of the seventeenth century, leaves his home to go into the woods on some evil errand. We...
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Young Goodman Brown
At the beginning of the story, Young Goodman Brown is presented as a loving husband. He refers to his wife as "a blessed angel on earth" and is sad to have to leave her. Young Goodman Brown is also...
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Young Goodman Brown
One of the lingering questions of the story is whether Brown dreams or lives the adventure in the forest. However, in the context of the themes of guilt and sin (and what it means to Brown...
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Young Goodman Brown
It does matter that Hawthorne leaves it in ambiguity. Hawthorne leaves it up to the reader to decide. Let’s say it was real. Brown went into the woods and learned that all those he thought were...
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Young Goodman Brown
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's allegorical story,with the utmost confidence in the goodness of his society and in himself, Brown embarks upon his trek into the forest despite the protestations of his...
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Young Goodman Brown
In Hawthorne's classic short story "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman meets the devil in the forest as he is traveling to the Black Mass. The devil, who assumes the appearance of an older Goodman...
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Young Goodman Brown
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "Young Goodman Brown," the narrator refers to Goodman Brown’s wife as "aptly named." The reason that she is “aptly named” is because she is both...
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Young Goodman Brown
Goodman Brown initially appears to be a pious individual, but over the course of "Young Goodman Brown," it becomes clear that his faith is tied up in the faith of others in his community. While it...
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Young Goodman Brown
Prior to the dream, it is clear that Goodman Brown is a devout, pious Christian. When he leaves his wife, he instructs her to say her prayers. When he first meets the traveler-companion in the...
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Young Goodman Brown
In the story, Hawthorne presents sin as part of human nature, no one escapes it, not the minister, not the high members of society, and even not his wife Faith, whose very name symbolizes the...
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Young Goodman Brown
One of the things about Young Goodman Brown is the way reality and dream interpenetrate. The story begins with Goodman Brown leaving on a mysterious journey; his wife, Faith, asks him not to go,...
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Young Goodman Brown
At the very end of the story, Young (I guess he's not young anymore ) Goodman Brown dies. He is followed to his grave by Faith and by their kids and their grandkids. When they bury him in his...
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Young Goodman Brown
When Goodman Brown reached the place of the midnight assembly, he found four pine trees ablaze and other vegetation burning. He saw a rock structure like a pulpit. Gathered around, singing an evil...
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Young Goodman Brown
The short answer is that we don't really know whether what Goodman Brown saw was real or if he simply imagined it. At the witches' meeting, he tells his wife, Faith, to resist the Devil, but...
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Young Goodman Brown
When Goodman Brown goes into the forest that night, he learns that people that he assumed were model Christians were corruptible by the Devil and sin. The Devil starts telling Goodman Brown of the...
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Young Goodman Brown
Goodman Brown leaves his house in Salem Village at sunset. His wife, Faith, is not very happy with the idea that he has business to attend to in the night. She begs her husband to postpone his...
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Young Goodman Brown
Arguably, the tragedy of Hawthorne's story is the loss of innocence and the realization of the reality of evil. As you'll find on the "themes" page here at eNotes: "Unfortunately,...
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Young Goodman Brown
Brown enters the forest on a journey of personal discovery, an introduction into the world of the less.than.perfect. He moves from people he knows in the village to members of his family right on...
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Young Goodman Brown
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...
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Young Goodman Brown
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals the impact of society on people’s lives. The narration is provided with a third person omniscient point of view. The primary characters...
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Young Goodman Brown
If you are referring to the main idea or the lesson to be taught from Young Goodman Brown you can conclude that Hawthorne wanted to send a message to those who call themselves "holier than thou"....
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Young Goodman Brown
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark and rather fanciful tale of a man who has a dream in which he encounters the devil and many of the devil's followers. Goodman Brown is walking...
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Young Goodman Brown
You may be hard pressed to prove that young Goodman Brown is in "pursuit of sin" since his aversion of it is what causes him to become a "stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a...
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Young Goodman Brown
In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown is the member of a Puritan community who is out one evening on "an errand." As he prepares to leave, his wife, Faith, puts her head near her new...
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Young Goodman Brown
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...
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Young Goodman Brown
If we examine the end of this excellent story, we can see that Goodman Brown's values and ideas about life have undergone a massive shift. Gone is the carefree and loving young man who was...
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Young Goodman Brown
There is a condescending attitude towards Indians (Native Americans) from Brown's perspective (not necessarily Hawthorne's). Brown expresses this just as he begins his journey of a "present evil...
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Young Goodman Brown
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown,” setting is relevant to character and theme in a number of ways, including the following: The reference to “sunset” in the...
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Young Goodman Brown
You have asked two questions so I have had to edit it down to only one, according to enotes regulations. Like so many of Hawthorne's short tales, this story is rich in allegorical overtones, in...
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Young Goodman Brown
Whether Young Goodman Brown dreamed the night in the forest is a question the reader must decide for himself. To me, it doesn't matter whether it's a dream or not because Young Goodman Brown...
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Young Goodman Brown
I do not believe that the story is intended to be taken as a dream--although Hawthorne leaves that possibility open as a way out for a reader who does not wish to believe what the story actually...
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Young Goodman Brown
In the story, the wickedness that Young Goodman Brown witnesses is a witches' Sabbath, a meeting of those in Salem who are in league with the Devil. There were a number of people there, "all of...
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Young Goodman Brown
Brown's walk through the woods brings him in contact with many people he knew from the town, all seemingly heading for the "black mass" that comes later. Hawthorne describes the first...
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Young Goodman Brown
Hawthorne never directly says that Faith knows anything. He intentionally leaves it ambiguous, but he does mention at the beginning that Faith is afraid she will have bad dreams. After...
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Young Goodman Brown
The man Goodman Brown meets in the woods outside Salem that night, whom he had clearly had pre-arranged to meet, is described as: ...about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as...
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Young Goodman Brown
Because one of the Puritan problems is that of distinguishing the elect from the damned, and the innocent from the corrupt, there is often ambiguity. As an example of this ambiguity of character,...
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Young Goodman Brown
It is the devil that Goodman Brown meets in the forest. The devil is characterized as looking like an older version of Brown himself "perhaps more in expression than features." He greets Brown...
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Young Goodman Brown
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set in Salem, Massachusetts, at about the time of the notorious Salem Witch Trials. What that means, of course, is that the prevailing religion in...
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Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown tells his wife, Faith, that he must go to the forest tonight, that it must be accomplished between "'now and sunrise.'" After he's left home, he looks back and sees her peering...
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Young Goodman Brown
These are two excellent works to compare whilst focusing on Romanticism and to help you I have added the links to the enotes study guide for both of them below. It is important to remember that the...
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Young Goodman Brown
Since Goodman Brown's name is ironic, it seems that Nathaniel Hawthorne maintains a rather skeptical tone toward his character, especially in the beginning of the narrative. For instance, as...
