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From: Nathaniel Hawthorne[In the following excerpt, Martin focuses on Goodman Brown's incomplete but cataclysmic initiation into evil.] To judge from the title, wrote Herman Melville in his review of Mosses from an Old Manse, one would suppose...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 1973[In the essay below, St. Armand analyzes Hawthorne's short story as “an historical parable, pure and simple.”] In his 1964 Centenary essay, “On Hawthorne” [included in Beyond Culture, 1965], Lionel Trilling declared...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the following essay, Abcarian contradicts previous critics who state that the ending of Hawthorne's tale is anticlimactic and redundant.] “Young Goodman Brown” is certainly one of Hawthorne's greatest stories and...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Modern Language Quarterly[In this essay, Walsh discusses the threefold symbolic pattern of Goodman Brown's experience in the forest which results in his surrender to despair.] Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In this essay, Johnson examines “Young Goodman Brown” in terms of the Puritan doctrine of justification, in which “God might open the hearts of certain men, allowing them to descend within in order to know themselves.”]...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne's well-known tale of a young man's initiation into the nature of evil, is usually seen as a classic example of his allegorical method. However, even as Hawthorne suggests in the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 1975[In this essay, Liebman argues that Hawthorne's concern in “Young Goodman Brown” is to challenge the reader's own morality and to force the reader to choose between conflicting possibilities of meaning.] Like “My...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology[In the following essay, Levy examines Faith as a character, an allegorical figure, and a symbol.] Few of Hawthorne's tales have elicited a wider range of interpretations than “Young Goodman Brown.” The critics have...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Short Stories for Students[Korb has a master's degree in English literature and creative writing and has written for a wide variety of educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses various themes in “Young Goodman Brown,"...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The CEA Critic[In the essay below, Campbell rejects psychoanalytic interpretations of “Young Goodman Brown,” which see the story as an allegory of the conflict caused by sexual sin.] Certainly Freudian criticism has made substantial...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureYoung Goodman Brown Allegorical short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1835 in New England Magazine and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). Considered an outstanding tale of witchcraft, it concerns a...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1. The Origin and Evolution of the Faust Myth The figure and story of Faust has been one of the most popular archetypes of the literary imagination since the Renaissance. Faust is also one of the most radically...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Magee explores the allegorization of Faith in “Young Goodman Brown,” suggesting that Brown rejects his wife at the end of the story because he can no longer sustain his allegory...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: The Journal of Narrative Technique[In the following essay, Hostetler investigates how conflict between the points of view of the title character and the narrator of “Young Goodman Brown” creates an ironic tension from which Hawthorne “develops his...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[(essay date November 1956) In the following essay, Connolly finds evidence of a negative assessment of Calvinism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."] It is surprising, in a way, to discover how few of the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: New England Quarterly[(essay date 1945) In the following essay, Fogle focuses on the balance of ambiguity and clarity in “Young Goodman Brown,” demonstrating how Hawthorne’s use of “the device of multiple choice” militates against a single...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[In the following essay, Paulits characterizes Hawthorne's tale as one in which the dominant theme is the ambivalence of the human heart when presented with a choice between good and evil.] My hope in this article is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: American Literature[In this essay, Levin examines Hawthorne's short story from a seventeenth-century perspective and notes that Goodman Brown succumbs to despair on only spectral evidence of evil.] I choose for my text two statements...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[In the essay below, Mathews notes that Goodman Brown's fall into sin is the result of theological error.] Almost everyone commenting on Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Young Goodman Brown” has noted that its general theme is...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From: Nineteenth-Century Fiction[In the following essay, Miller contends that Goodman Brown is not meant to be representative of all humanity, and therefore Hawthorne's story, is not as pessimistic as is commonly perceived.] Critics have agreed that...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center