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The double meaning of "My Faith is gone!" in "Young Goodman Brown" reflects both Goodman Brown's loss of his wife, Faith, and his loss of religious faith. This pivotal moment signifies his despair as...

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The colonists are Puritans (a Calvinist-focused version of Christianity). Hawthorne was fascinated by the Puritan legacy, and became very interested in historical accounts of the Salem Witch Trials...

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I perceive this as being directly related to a biblical allusion...one that involves being tempted, as Jesus was by the Devil.  Brown is also being tempted in various ways.  Also, Jesus...

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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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A New Critical approach to "Young Goodman Brown" would focus on the text's formal elements, such as symbolism, irony, and ambiguity, without considering external contexts. Key symbols like the forest...

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It is hard to divorce "Young Goodman Brown" from Hawthorne's influence regarding his criticism of Puritan culture. Since Formalist criticism is not interested in biography or historical background,...

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This scene, in which the stranger addresses the crowd of townspeople in the forest, is the climax of the story. What Goodman Brown sees before him are those, including his young wife Faith, whom he...

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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne serves as a moral allegory exploring the human condition through symbolism and an inward journey. The story examines themes of good versus evil, loss of...

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Have a look at the allegorical/symbolic elements of the story.

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Hawthorne's story is a meditation on the nature of both good and evil. Perhaps the central question posed by the narrative involves how much of either of those concepts, especially evil, is a matter...

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The main conflict of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" lies in Brown's Calviinistic/Puritanical guilt which challenged by his rebellion.  In the exposition of the story, he tells his...

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