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Nathaniel Hawthorne's Use of Allegory

In "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne uses moral allegory to exemplify the story of a young man who is unwillingly separated from his world of purity to become conscious of the extensive wickedness that lives in his world. Allegory is a type of extended metaphor, in which objects, people, and events in a narrative, are equal with the implications that extend beyond the story itself. The hidden meaning has ethical, social, spiritual, or political implications, and characters are often representations of nonfigurative ideas as donations, gluttony, or jealousy. Therefore an allegory is a narrative with double meanings, a simple meaning and a figurative meaning. The following paragraphs explain how allegory and symbolism are used throughout "Young Goodman Brown." These allegories are split up into four main parts including Young Goodman Brown and Faith's names, the forest and the devil, Brown's father and community, and Brown's acceptance of the......

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