Truth Exposed In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story published in 1835 “Young Goodman Brown” demonstrates how the writer uses his imagination and background history of his ancestor. According to Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Hawthorne was an “American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for THE SCARLET LETTER (1850) and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1851). Hawthorne grew up in Salem and in Raymond, Maine, on the shores of Sebago Lake.”
John Hathorne, was one of his ancestors and one of the three judges at the seventeenth-century in where witchcraft trials where common. During the seventeenth and eighteen century dozens of people were accused of and later executed for being "witches". Most of his stories were based on Hawthorne's modern themes and Hawthorne’s own religious beliefs. The puritanical atmosphere of the colonies was oppressive, and with its legacy of witch hunts and permanent obsession with the evil his reminiscences of pagan Indian presence and shamanic cults where a tradition. Nathaniel Hawthorne stories, for example, are quite …show more content…
Neither the narrator says. The only certainty is that Goodman has lost faith. From that awful night he became an uncompromising, sad, and distrustful man. Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, departed from the lap of Faith. And in the morning or late afternoon when the family knelt in prayer, scowling and muttering to himself, looked sternly at his wife and turned the head. And when he had lived long years and his white body was carried to the grave, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a large procession of neighbors, who were not a few, not carved on his tombstone no verse of hope since the time of his death he was
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story published in 1835 “Young Goodman Brown” demonstrates how the writer uses his imagination and background history of his ancestor. According to Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Hawthorne was an “American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for THE SCARLET LETTER (1850) and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1851). Hawthorne grew up in Salem and in Raymond, Maine, on the shores of Sebago Lake.”
John Hathorne, was one of his ancestors and one of the three judges at the seventeenth-century in where witchcraft trials where common. During the seventeenth and eighteen century dozens of people were accused of and later executed for being "witches". Most of his stories were based on Hawthorne's modern themes and Hawthorne’s own religious beliefs. The puritanical atmosphere of the colonies was oppressive, and with its legacy of witch hunts and permanent obsession with the evil his reminiscences of pagan Indian presence and shamanic cults where a tradition. Nathaniel Hawthorne stories, for example, are quite …show more content…
Neither the narrator says. The only certainty is that Goodman has lost faith. From that awful night he became an uncompromising, sad, and distrustful man. Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, departed from the lap of Faith. And in the morning or late afternoon when the family knelt in prayer, scowling and muttering to himself, looked sternly at his wife and turned the head. And when he had lived long years and his white body was carried to the grave, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a large procession of neighbors, who were not a few, not carved on his tombstone no verse of hope since the time of his death he was