Nathaniel Hawthorne's grandfather was a judge in the Salem witch trials and Hawthorne was always haunted by his family's past. ... The character tells the devil that he cannot walk with him because he would not be able to look his minister in the eyes again if he did, but later when the devil brought him to his meeting, his minister was there cavorting with the devil (Hawthorne). ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's works often explore the Puritan lifestyle and question what it means to be religious during those times. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, he uses the imagery and symbols associated with his characters to examine Puritan culture and its religious beliefs. ... " (Hawthorne 644). ... " (Hawthorne 645). ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, he uses the imagery and symbols associated with his characters to examine Puritan culture and its religious beliefs. ...
is a story about a Puritan's dream of predetermination written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne lets the reader know that Young Goodman Brown dreams his meeting with evil. Hawthorne asks,Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?? ...
The Puritans were a group of English protestants who moved from England to America in order to have religious freedom. In the late 16th and 17th centuries, puritanism was widely spread in New England, especially Massachusetts. Their community was growing bigger as time went by in New England. It def...
