Unlike many other fictional works, “Young Goodman Brown” makes a direct relation between historical people and events. For instance, the appearance of Goody Close and Martha Carrier pla

Although John E. Becker makes an impressive argument in Hawthorne’s Historical Allegory that the experience of Brown is a dream, he concludes by stating that it is of little importance. Instead, one should focus on the effect the witches’ meeting has on the way Brown interacts with God and his fellow man. Hawthorne sustains doubt about the reality of Brown’s experience an allegory of the soul’s confrontation with doubt This type of delusion can deceive any human being and probably did deceive plenty of Puritans.

ces the story around 1691 because they were both tried and convicted of witchcraft the following year during the Salem Witch Trials. The author is able to use the reader’s assumption that Goody Close and Martha Carrier are innocent to further play on Young Goodman Brown’s delusion and to support the belief that he may be dreaming. F

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