Hawthorne.ppt

“Young Goodman Brown” is the dream experience of Goodman Brown who is young, innocent and, as his name suggests, an average man. Brown is newly wed and one night, he leaves his wife “Faith” behind to go on a journey in the forest. The forest, in Hawthorne’s allegorical tale, is the abode of sin and evil. There in the forest Brown discovers the Puritan community in its entirety, engaged in a collective confession of their association with evil and sin (something they would vehemently deny in broad daylight for sure). But the greatest shock is that he finds his “Faith” to be among them, at the d