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and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

also illustrating how she was not a woman who was likely insecure. As the poem moves on the narrator informs the reader even mor...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...