Essay Archive - Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown
"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick
with allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is told through the
perversion of a religious leader. In "Young Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a
Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his
relations with the community after he meets with the devil, and causes him to
live the life of an exile in his own community.
"Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to....
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