YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN By: Anonymous YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN Nathaniel Hawthorne, famous for his short and children stories, took on the issue of evil in our minds, in his story, Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne begins his story in the setting of Salem village in Massachusetts. I ... believe the authors" selection of Salem was a good one, for it is a town that symbolizes evil with its history of the witch trials. Hawthorne takes a personal interest in the setting, where his grandfather was a judge at the trials. He wrote the story from the third person point of view of an anonymous ... all of the cha...

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