Essay Archive - Revealing the Mistakes of Puritanism
Revealing the Mistakes of Puritanism
Proverbs 10:28 implies the idea of the universality of sin in
saying “The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked
come to nothing.” In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne
illustrates this through Brown's actions. When Brown lives a righteous
life with good faith, his thoughts remain pure and happy. He has a
wonderful wife, and he enjoys the presence of everyone. As he takes his
walk into the forest and into evil ways, his hopes and faith disappear. He
no longer loves his wife in the same way, and he despises eve....
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