Young Goodman Brown: The Downfall Of Young Goodman Brown
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"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 ....
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.... pride
because he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because of this promise
that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because
when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with
the same faith he had before.
When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the
reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has
a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being ....
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