Young Good Man Brown
"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an allegorical story just like Hawthorne's another allegorical novel, the Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's writing style appears to be the same in both "Young Goodman Brown" and the Scarlet Letter. For instance, Hawthorne leaves us ambiguity in the end for both stories. For "Young Goodman Brown", he does not let us know if Brown's whole trip with the Devil is a dream or reality. Scarlet Letter, at the same time, does not explain which interpretation of Dimmesdale's scarlet letter in the final scaffold scene is true. Hawthorne even leaves the interpretation optional by saying, "The reader may choose among these theories." In addition, these two stories are allegories, which people, things and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning which are often used for teaching or explaining ideas, moral principles. Therefore, both stories are definitely trying to teach us a lesson, and they, in fact, are talking about the same issue. They are conveying that both good and bad exist, and it is impossible that only one stands on its own. Before Young Goodman Brown's meeting with the Devil,he says to Faith, his wife "My love and my Faith, of all nights in the year, this one night must
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Approximate Word count = 1569
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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