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Hawthorne and Symbolism
Symbolism is a key in all or most writings. Symbolism is what the reader needs in order to use his imagination. In "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, through different symbolism, Hawthorne writes about a man who in his coming of age. This man is Goodman Brown and he learns that there is a ....
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.... on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to
thee is this world given." This shows that the most important thing in Christianity, his faith, is lost.
Throughout the night, Brown finds out more than he ever wanted to know about how his fellow Puritan townsmen have betrayed their faith by giving in to their darker desires, he even
feels his father urging him onward to do the same. All that he learns in the night is too much for him, and it changes a devoted husband with bright hopes and a wife whom he loves to a tired, beaten, questioning and almo ....
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