Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited By The Devil
Beginning of paper
In Puritan Massachusetts the key word was suspicion. In order to be accepted, by
the community, you had to be a member of the "elect," destined for a spot in the
eternity of heaven. In order to be member of this elite group of "selected"
individuals you had to be free of sin and evil. It goes with ....
Middle of paper
.... Goodman Brown himself replies to Faith's longing for him to wait until
morning to embark on his journey, "My journey needst be done twixt now and
sunrise" (611). Goodman Brown knows exactly what he is going to look for, he is
searching for evil. He goes to the forest to do his deed and "he had taken a
dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest" to get there(611).
Goodman Brown is willingly seeking the devil, and Hawthorne is throwing in all
the stereotypes. This entire sea ....
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