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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......

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