Revealing The Mistakes Of Puritanism
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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 fa ....
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.... an “
uncertain” feeling comes over him as he looks ahead to the “gloom” awaiting
him. The forest is very dark and dreary and these words help create the
eerie mood. These words create an insecure and unsure feeling in the
reader's mind. The reader feels as if he stands right there on the
outskirts of the forest along with Brown. That type of feeling scares even
the bravest of men. Hawthorne also describes the events taking place in
the forest as “devilish,” “horrid,” a ....
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