Experiencing Can Be Corrupting
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Throughout society various people are faced with numerous amounts of choices during their lifetime. Regardless if their decisions are good or bad, these decisions effect them for the rest of their lives. Anything from what to do or what to wear, these choices have a definite impact. As little c ....
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.... This is a simple example of someone going from a state of innocence to a corrupting experience. Another example of someone who has been stripped of his innocence through his experience is well depicted in the famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne illustrates how a person can go from a state of innocence to a state of experience, thus corrupting the individual.
As one reads the short story of Hawthorne, it ....
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