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Young Goodman Brown

The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown "Young Goodman
Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with
allegory. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story which is
told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "Young
Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister
who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his
relations with the community after he meets with the devil,
and causes him to live the life of an exile in his own
community. "Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith,
Brown's wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman
Brown says to his "love and (my) Faith" that "this one night I
must tarry away from thee." When he says his "love" and his
"Faith", he is talking to his wife, but he is also talking to his
"faith" to God. He is venturing into the woods to meet with
the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith
in God with his wife. He resolves that he will "cling to her
skirts and follow her to Heaven." This is......


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