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    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown
    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown
    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown
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    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781535843485
    A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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      Young Goodman Brown

      Nathaniel Hawthorne

      1835

      Introduction

      Young Goodman Brown, written in 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is known for being one of literature’s most gripping portrayals of seventeenth-century Puritan society. The tale first appeared in the April issue of New England Magazine and was later included in Hawthorne’s popular short story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, in 1846.

      Young Goodman Brown tells the tale of a young Puritan man drawn into a covenant with the Devil. Brown’s illusions about the goodness of his society are crushed when he discovers that many of his fellow townspeople, including religious leaders and his wife, are attending a Black Mass. At the end of the story, it is not clear whether Brown’s experience was nightmare or reality, but the results are nonetheless the same. Brown is unable to forgive the possibility of evil in his loved ones and as a result spends the rest of his life in desperate loneliness and

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