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    far more” (177) at an altar surrounded by four baking trees. Brown laments “it was strange to see that good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints” (177), there is no division between the good and the wicked, as there is in Salem, in the woods. He is then led together with a cloaked female figure, as converts, to the evil practice. At instruction from the devil’s speech, the cloaked woman is unveiled to be Faith at the announcement: “[Depending] upon one…

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne, deals with the struggle between perfection and imperfection. The main character, Alymer, studies science during the Age of Enlightenment. The study of science completely consumes Alymer and sidetracks him from any social life. He eventually steps away from science long enough to marry a beautiful woman named Georgiana. Soon after their marriage, Alymer realizes he does not like a red, hand shaped birthmark on his wife’s face. He feels this imperfection ruins an otherwise…

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown realizes that everyone has a capability for evil, and that there is no hope for mankind. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ambiguity to leave the readers with questions, and to put them in a similar place of confusion and paranoia to Goodman Brown. While in the forest Goodman Brown has a run in with the devil, who shows him the maliciousness of those he had once thought pure (Hawthorne 4). He finds that nearly everyone in town had malignant…

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    Sin In Young Goodman Brown

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    changes upon the life-changing journey into the dark forest. This story is not only indicative to evil within humanity but also, the Dark Romantics Era that helped illustrate this story. “Young Goodman Brown” constructed a story of a man suffering from a lack of faith in him, which then gears into discovering sin surrounding him at all times. Firstly in the beginning of the story, Faith (Goodman’s Wife) is demanding Goodman to stay beside her of all nights as he is getting ready to…

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    type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world” (Hawthorne 641). This is a very literal translation of the symbol that Hawthorne is trying to convey by having the minister wear the veil in his work. But in Young Goodman Brown, the symbolism is much more discrete, and a part of the…

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    For those who are religious, the New Testament defines evil as an entity that opposes God and God 's people. Webster Dictionary defines evil as having poor natural qualities; harmful; unpleasant; vicious; corrupt; wicked; hopeless. In religion, evil is an entity that hovers over the dark side of the battle between black and white, while the definition of Webster humanizes evil leading to the gray area of human nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Young Goodman Brown, addresses the definition of evil.…

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    He sees all the people from the ritual just going about their daily lives. When he sees his wife—who is happy to see her husband back from his journey—he just looks at her sadly and passes on without greeting her. He ends up staying with Faith, and they have many children and grandchildren. However, Young Goodman Brown left that forest…

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    In today’s society evil takes many forms, many of them motivated by political goals. In the past, particularly in a new and growing society, America, evil was hidden from public sight and harder to fathom for a hopeful populace. The two stories used for this essay: “The cask of Amontillado” and “Young Goodman Brown” features two examples of evil with different motivations. Edgar Allen Poe’s story is motivated by the need for retribution while Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Goodman Brown’s motivations are…

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    material. While reading Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, my final take away was most likely different than others because I placed myself in the shoes of Good Brown and saw myself as the young and vulnerable man running through the woods with old witches and deceiving pastors. I think that his response is nothing worse than I would have reflected. I don’t know if I had an experience quite like his, if I would just bounce back.…

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    something. They hope they will one day be extraordinary so they have to trust in themselves. They have to have faith; they will get there one day. Then they will love what they do each and every day. However, what happens when they let someone take that from them? They give in to temptation. One author who brilliantly interprets this image is Nathaniel Hawthorne…

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