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Or religious leaders doing not-so-religious things. Yeah, stories about good appearances and bad realities are everywhere. And "Young Goodman Brown" is one of them.
But as you could probably guess it's more complicated than good versus evil, or good that really is evil; instead, it's a story about how evil is perceived and interpreted. When he encounters evil and hypocrisy, young Goodman Brown has some stunningly complex reactions. He's sometimes angry, sometimes intimidated, sometimes saddened, and, sometimes, excited and intoxicated by what he sees. You know, like watching a mafia movie and rooting for the bad guys.
Despite these complicated reactions, young Goodman Brown thinks that his situation is pretty simple. As he sees it, his hometown of Salem might as well be called Hypocrisyland, Massachusetts. If you're a kid growing up in a small town, you've felt this. If you're not—well, maybe you've seen it on TV. He's a small-town kid with high ideals who thinks he knows better than everyone else around him, and he's in for a big surprise: the world isn't nearly as simple as he thinks it is.
So, young Goodman Brown's dilemmas may be Puritan, but they're also surprisingly universal. Is the world really as bad as we think it is? Set Interface Language. Decrease font size. Increase font size. Display options. Default More Most. Back to Default Settings Done. Article Preview :. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart" Alexander Solzhenitsyn I Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" has been and continues to be read from a seemingly endless variety of critical perspectives.
Although Goodman Brown has decided to come into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hides when he sees Goody Cloyse and hears the minister and Deacon Gookin. He seems more concerned with how his faith appears to other people than with the fact that he has decided to meet with the devil.
When Goodman Brown discovers that his father, grandfather, Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and Faith are all in league with the devil, Goodman Brown quickly decides that he might as well do the same. Hawthorne seems to suggest that the danger of basing a society on moral principles and religious faith lies in the fact that members of the society do not arrive at their own moral decisions.
When they copy the beliefs of the people around them, their faith becomes weak and rootless. Goodman Brown loses his innocence because of his inherent corruptibility, which suggests that whether the events in the forest were a dream or reality, the loss of his innocence was inevitable.
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