The article, “Carnivalesque Freedom in Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown” compared events in the story of “Young Goodman Brown” to the concept of carnivals and mockery. Not specifically stated in the article, Carnivalesque is not only suggestive to a carnival, but it also represents mocking of authority and traditional social hierarchy. The author of the article, Selina Jamil, gives multiple reasons as to why she believes that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s piece has strong use of carnivalesque. She uses quotes from both the original story, and another critique by Mikhail Bakhtin. Jamil’s main arguments focuses on the witch meeting that happens in the story. She uses many comparisons as to why the meeting mocks authority, more specifically the authority
