Young Goodman Brown
Beginning of paper
"'Lo! There ye stand, my children,' said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its
despairing awfulness, as if his once angelis nature could yet mourn for our miserable race.
"Depending on one another's hearts, ye had still hoped, that virtue were not all a dream. Now ye
are undec ....
Middle of paper
.... of goodman Brown's journey.
I think Hawthorne had much more in mind than a mere outline of good and evil. His primary struggle in Young
Goodman Brown seems to be less with faith vs. the faithless void than with the points in between these states. The
story seems more about the journey through between two rigidly defined states than about good and evil. By
describing good and evil through heavy-handed metaphors and symbols, such as his wife's name and the satanic
communion he finds ....
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Word count: 1363
Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
