1. Nathaniel Hawthorne And His Works
... with his father's devout Puritan family as a child, but also due to Hawthorne's study of his own family history (Moore). The study of his family from the establishment of the Bay Colony to the Second Great Awakening of his own time parallels the issues brought forth in "Young Goodman Brown"(McCabe). Hawthorne sets "Young Goodman Brown" in somewhat of a context of Puritan rigidity and ... intervention, or a vision, which is easily translated into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allows him to use Puritan doctrine and the history of Salem. Hawthorne would have most likely relied...
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