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Young Goodman Brown

            
             Nathaniel Hawthorne in Young Goodman Brown does a good job in characterizing Young Goodman Brown as a character that embodies the disillusionment of the young into senile elders. Young Goodman Brown is fiction and is made up of fictional characters based on stereotypes of 17th Puritans. Though a complex story of one mans life it contains both characters that are flat, stock, and one character in particular that is dynamic yet very mimetic, Young Goodman Brown.
             As the story starts off young Goodman Brown is shown to be a stereotypical Puritan in the 17th century or a stock character. This is done through indirect characterization. Hawthorne has been noted for his research into the period of time that "Young Goodman Brown" takes place. But this would be unknown unless attention is paid to how Young Goodman Brown reacts to the various events through out the story. Especially the initial set of events which include when the protagonist prepares to leave his wife Faith gives us a good early picture of who this character is but contradictory evidence is offered in paragraph 8, line 1. Throughout the rest of the story we see this initial conflict slowly lead to a cataclysmic change.
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             The name itself Young Goodman Brown tells a lot about who he might be and what he might think of himself it as well gives insight into the conflict present in the story. First Young in Young Goodman Brown tells us that the character is most likely young we are then given direct evidence of this in paragraph 3, line 4. Goodman in Young Goodman Brown also gives indirect evidence in who he might be. If we were to isolate Good in Goodman good means "1. adj of a high quality or standard, either on an absolute scale or in relation to another or others" as written by Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001. We are given direct evidence in paragraph 18 that Young Goodman Brown obviously thinks himself of highly and tells directly that he believes his father to have been a good Christian man and in paragraph 20 we are shown that believes his family name to have good standing in the Salem community.


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1. Young Goodman Brown

In "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown breaks apart after he realizes that not everything is perfect and neither is he, after he takes a journey and meets the devil. I This story uses allegory by the names Faith and Young Goodman Brown 1. ... Young Goodman Brown 3. ... Young Goodman Brown and Devil Hawthorne uses the name "Young Goodman Brown" as a symbol in the story. ... The name Young Goodman Brown symbolizes the average untainted man. ...

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2. Young goodman brown

Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story about a young husband and wife and the journey that the husband (Goodman Brown) takes one night. ... Young Goodman Brown changes from the exposition, through the climax, and into the denouement. Hawthorne uses symbolism, settings, and irony to define his complex character in all three parts of "Young Goodman Brown" this paper will analysis all the aspects that make Young Goodman Brown change through out the short story "Young Goodman Brown". ... Goodman Brown is slowly changing from a young man that new what was right and wrong an...

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3. Young Goodman Brown's Faith

A good example of this transition is in a literary work by the name of "Young Goodman Brown". ... This leads to his final obstacle, the one that causes Young Goodman Brown to throw in all the chips. ... This "one voice" is Young Goodman Brown's anchor, his Faith (Hawthorne 30). ... Young Goodman Brown's knowledge of the truth causes him to see all evil in people therefore bringing him to lose his faith. ... Gloomy, desperate, and sad are all words used to describe Young Goodman Brown after his journey from Salem Village. ...

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4. Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown Perceptions of Faith in "Young Goodman Brown." ... The story of Young Goodman Brown is about a man and his faith in himself, his wife, and the community they reside in. Young Goodman Brown is a man at a crossroads in his life. ... It is when Young Goodman Brown sets off that the trouble soon begins. ... This evil person makes many advances which Young Goodman Brown refuses. ...

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5. Setting in Young Goodman Brown

His prominent work "Young Goodman Brown," first published in 1835, contains many figurative elements which have a profound effect on the story. ... Hawthorne arouses the following associations by choosing "Salem Village" (65) in the heart of the Puritan North England as the home of Young Goodman Brown. ... The devil claiming that he has helped Young Goodman Brown's grandfather "when he lashed [a] Quaker woman through the streets of Salem" (67) and his father "to set fire on an Indian village, in King Philip's war" (68) is the occasion when we learn...

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6. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To begin with, Hawthorne introduces the reader to Young Goodman Brown; he is a young religious man living with his wife Faith in Salem Massachusetts, as Young Goodman Brown ventures deeper into the forest, he starts to see the evil in people he admired. ... Young Goodman Brown sees "a devilish Indian behind every tree" (pg. 21). ... When Young Goodman Brown finally meets the man at the foot of an old tree, the man tells Young Goodman Brown "The clock of the old south was striking as I came through Boston, and that is a full fifteen minutes ago" (pg. 21). ... To Young Good...

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7. Young Goodman Brown

The short story "Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a great example of an allegorical story as it is filled with many symbolic elements. ... The character Young Goodman Brown is a central symbol in this tale. At first, as Erisman states, the name Young Goodman Brown may come across as a standard name for a man of the seventeenth century, but, upon closer investigation, it soon becomes evident that it stands for much more (124). ... However, as soon as Brown ventures into the forest and converses with the elderly traveller (a representation of the devil), he loses the "...

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8. Setting in Young Goodman Brown

In Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne uses the forest, the time of the day and, the path Goodman follows to symbolize the struggle between God and the devil. ... Young Goodman Brown avoids the light of the day, where everyone can make sense of the wrong things is going thru. ... One other thing that cooperates to the setting of the story is the "path" follows by Young Goodman Brown. ... Young Goodman Brown is willingly seeking the devil. ... The way Hawthorne narrates the story of the Young Goodman Brown in with the use of symbolism lead to different ways of analysis. ...

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9. The Story of Young Goodman Brown

The story of Young Goodman Brown's expedition with the devil becomes his disparaging revelation of human nature. In the beginning of the story Young Goodman Brown is faithful to the idea that the people he respects and loves remain pure and stray from sin. ... When Goodman Brown loses his faith he spins into madness and after his own maniacal rage he is wary of the evils others commit. ... Goodman Brown is weakened by their gossip and plunges into despair over the sanctity of everything he holds dear. ... Upon awakening from his vision Young Goodman Brown is a changed man wary of the poss...

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