Puritan influence on Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed in the short story “Young Goodman Brown”
Even each word has its own meaning; in the different context, a word’s meaning can be different as well. Additionally, each word, passage, and the story said or written has an ability to influence a person. Nathaniel Hawthorne was not an exception. Hawthorne was influenced by puritan religious, which provoke in the author distrust and depravity. Therefore, the story “Young Goodman Brown “expresses the author’s feelings and concerns regarding an issue that disturbs Hawthorne. Moreover, the events, places, and specific word choices provided in this story relate to Puritanism that historically had place in Massachusetts.
The reason for Hawthorne to provide a place where the evens of the story took place was an author’s own village where he was born. As stated in Hawthorne biography “Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1804, into the sixth generation of his Salem family”(cite).Therefore, Salem village was not just randomly picked …show more content…
From the young age people absorb relationships between good and evil. The parents very often explain this relationship to own children from point of view of own religion. Hawthorne was not an exception. Since the author was born in Puritan family, probably from the young age he was taught to understand good and evil fro point of view of Puritanism (cite).
When the child grew up into an adult person, there come this time to question religion in which a person was raised. In the story very clearly and appropriately explained feelings of young Goodman Brown. On one side, Goodman Brown understands that he is religious mas as was his father and grandfather (cite). On the other side, the young man also wants to check is that really evil influence on a person in from the devil, which Puritans used to believe as well
Even each word has its own meaning; in the different context, a word’s meaning can be different as well. Additionally, each word, passage, and the story said or written has an ability to influence a person. Nathaniel Hawthorne was not an exception. Hawthorne was influenced by puritan religious, which provoke in the author distrust and depravity. Therefore, the story “Young Goodman Brown “expresses the author’s feelings and concerns regarding an issue that disturbs Hawthorne. Moreover, the events, places, and specific word choices provided in this story relate to Puritanism that historically had place in Massachusetts.
The reason for Hawthorne to provide a place where the evens of the story took place was an author’s own village where he was born. As stated in Hawthorne biography “Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1804, into the sixth generation of his Salem family”(cite).Therefore, Salem village was not just randomly picked …show more content…
From the young age people absorb relationships between good and evil. The parents very often explain this relationship to own children from point of view of own religion. Hawthorne was not an exception. Since the author was born in Puritan family, probably from the young age he was taught to understand good and evil fro point of view of Puritanism (cite).
When the child grew up into an adult person, there come this time to question religion in which a person was raised. In the story very clearly and appropriately explained feelings of young Goodman Brown. On one side, Goodman Brown understands that he is religious mas as was his father and grandfather (cite). On the other side, the young man also wants to check is that really evil influence on a person in from the devil, which Puritans used to believe as well