... , and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness."(166). Brown knew only what he chose to see and believe. He knew the reality he created within himself. Hawthorne has Goodman look at his ancestors and soon allows the reader to realize that not only is the past corrupt, but those that surround the present ... gloom"(172). Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" can be viewed in several ways. Some may think that Brown was dreaming, and the results of that dream ruined his life. Others may believe that as a Puritan, Goodman Brown sought a true conversion experience. Whether or not...

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... attempt to pray to God he realizes Faith is at the communion as one of the converts and tries to save her before their baptism. After Brown awakes from his dream, he begins to show is arrogance when he takes a child away from Goody Cloyse as if he were taking the child away from fiend. His anger and arrogance is also ... , the nature of arrogance that Goodman Brown and Hulga posses are distinctly different. Goodman Brown's arrogance was unjustly based upon his own self-righteous beliefs and his inability to look within himself. His excessive pride led him to believe that he was the only ...

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... road to what may or may not be a true conversion experience (McCabe). This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine 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 on Puritan educational history as a setting for the ... newly married Brown's self-examination. In the setting of the tale, Brown would fall under the Half-Way Covenant, and his education under Goody Cloyse in part fosters the need within Brown to enter th...

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... road to what may or may not be a true conversion experience (McCabe). This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine 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 on Puritan educational history as a setting for the ... newly married Brown's self-examination. In the setting of the tale, Brown would fall under the Half-Way Covenant, and his education under Goody Cloyse in part fosters the need within Brown to enter th...

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... with the Devil. The next example of guilt presents itself after Goodman Brown parts ways with the devil and he hears horses approaching "and deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the verge of the forest, conscious of the guilty purpose that had brought him thither." (Hawthorne, 611) Brown is not only hiding himself from other travelers, but he is hiding ... 's worst punishment is how he lives out the rest of his life. "A stern, a sad, a darkly meditive, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream." (Hawthorne, 616) He went on a journ...

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