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"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.
This observation is equally true of his short-stories, in which central females serve as allegorical figures: Rappaccini's beautiful but life-altering, garden-bound, daughter; almost-perfect Georgiana of "The Birth-Mark"; the sinned-against (abandoned) Ester of "Ethan Brand"; and goodwife Faith Brown, linchpin of Young Goodman Brown's very ...
Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses":
First page of "Young Goodman Brown" from The New-England Magazine, April 1835. The New-England Magazine was an American monthly literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1831 to 1835.
Beyond the Burning Time (1996), a young adult novel by Kathryn Lasky, which depicts the trials through the eyes of a fictional young woman, Mary Chase. Gallows Hill (1997) by Lois Duncan (1934-2016) is young-adult fiction in which main character Sarah, and many others, turn out to be reincarnations of those accused and killed during the trials.
The divine is an angry, inscrutable God demanding sacrifice, the human is the tyrannical anti-Christ, the animal is a predator such as a lion, the vegetable is the evil wood as found at the beginning of Dante's Inferno or Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", and the city is the dystopia embodied by Orwell's 1984 or Kafka's The Castle.
If the Puritans in Goodman Brown are like a city upon a hill, they've obviously decided "Well then -- we'd better take to the woods!"Grammargal 21:38, 24 January 2012 (UTC) The line is unsourced and is probably the personal musing of a prior editor. It seems to have little bearing on the article anyway. It's probably okay to remove it.
Young Goodman Brown, short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne [37] Poems. Pani Twardowska, poem by Adam Mickiewicz, in Polish folklore and literature, is a sorcerer who made a deal with the devil. [38] [39] Comic books. Baron Mordo, story line in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #5. [40] the Black Panther, story line in Black Panther (1988) #3 ...