The unusual time of day, particularly in the end of the seventeenth century, "at sunset" (65), when Goodman Brown leaves his home and his wife Faith, who he describes as "a blessed angel" (65) and as his "sweet, pretty wife" (65), underlines that the destination of his journey has to be a sinful or at least an immoral place thus he calls himself a "wretch to leave her" (65). ... In the forest the arising darkness by "all the gloomiest trees" (66) and the unknown of the wild woods where "the devil himself" (66) could be right in front ...

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The mentioned group if american intellectuals was called Transcendental Club founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Boston in 1836. ... His early journal "Walden" is based on the author's 2-year stay in a cabin he build himself on the shore of apond (called Walden), on Emerson's property.This work deals, among others, with the separation of morality from Christianity. ... His assertion "in Wildness is the preservation of the World" reflects a human need to find his proper ethical and spiritual place in nature. ... They called for reforms that were necessary in a democratic cou...

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