These works, which center around a quest, include “Young Goodman Brown,” where the main character ultimately discovers himself. Through what he believes to be a religious enlightenment, Brown realizes his true feelings about Puritanism, as described: “The common idiom of criticism has been that of morally committed psychology of characters and their religion experience” (Wilczyński 288). Brown initially made secret meetings with a “strange man” in the forest directly outside of his village of Salem. Being genuinely concerned about his wife, Faith, he informs her that he must leave for a treacherous journey into the forest and that she need not follow him, for her own safety. Puritanism is extremely prevalent in this instance, which is tearing him away from his wife, solely because he is doing this for a religious
These works, which center around a quest, include “Young Goodman Brown,” where the main character ultimately discovers himself. Through what he believes to be a religious enlightenment, Brown realizes his true feelings about Puritanism, as described: “The common idiom of criticism has been that of morally committed psychology of characters and their religion experience” (Wilczyński 288). Brown initially made secret meetings with a “strange man” in the forest directly outside of his village of Salem. Being genuinely concerned about his wife, Faith, he informs her that he must leave for a treacherous journey into the forest and that she need not follow him, for her own safety. Puritanism is extremely prevalent in this instance, which is tearing him away from his wife, solely because he is doing this for a religious