... , his emotional life was then ended, and the areas of human experience in which he might have participated in, effectively extinguished. Exemplifying the "power of blackness" in Hawthorne's work was Young Goodman Brown. The main purpose of this narrative tale is to move the protagonist toward a personal and climatic vision of evil, leaving in it's a rubble and prevailing feeling of distrust. From ... Goodman Brown's dream vision or his spectral adventure in the forest, he has received a paralyzing sense that the brotherhood and unity of man is only reachable through the fatherhood of the...

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