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Young Goodman Brown 5

An obsession with the Puritan religion is what Nathaniel Hawthorne battled with his entire life. Or more accurately, he was obsessed with counter arguing the Puritan's belief that they were without imperfection by creating characters that defied this pompous attitude. "Young Goodman Brown" tells the story of Hawthorne's Puritan everyman. Brown has a naive belief that faith, both his wife Faith, and his commitment to religion, will provide for him, but ironically it is faith, that betrays him.
At the story's onset Young goodman Brown bids farewell to his young wife. The facet of Brown's life that she represents is illustrated by her name "Faith," and in Hawthorne's visual description, ...

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loneliness, and mystery of the forest (pg. 75). The home, namely Faith and her ribbons, symbolizes the perceived safety and certainty of the Puritan community. Brown intends on "making more haste on his present evil purpose" (pg. 75) so he can return quickly to the village. The community is seen as a safe haven from the sin of the rest of the world.
Not only does Faith represent security but also the innocence and the purity of strength in religion. Brown refers to her as "a blessed angel on earth" (pg. 75) and plans "to cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven." (pg. 75) Faith is in a sense his anchor. She is the matriarch of the home, which is a place of refuge and of purist faith. For Brown, she is the embodiment of the most pure Puritan woman and with her strength and commitment, he is fulfilling his role as a Puritan man. Because of her virtuosity Brown feels guilty about leaving her in order to journey into the woods; he justifies that she does not have ...

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Added: 11/13/2006 09:40:42 AM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1042
Pages: 4

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