Young Goodman Brown

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Young Goodman Brown

• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Lets Explore The Basic Nature Of Mankind, Shall
  We?

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First, lets define

• Allegory
• A representation of (abstract) concepts though
  concrete or material forms

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Major Characters

• Young Goodman Brown
• Faith
• The Old Man
• Goody Cloyse
• Deacon Gookin
• Forest
• Night

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Symbols

• Pink Ribbons
• Walking Stick
• Townspeople

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Themes

• Temptation
• Individual v. Society
• Guilt v. Innocence
• Good v. Evil

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Notable Quotes

• Faith kept me back awhile, replied the young
  man.
• With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet
  stand firm against the devil! cried Goodman
  Brown.
• My Faith is gone! cried he, after one stupefied
  moment. There is no good on earth and sin is
  but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this
  world given.
• In truth, all through the haunted forest, there
  could be nothing more frightful than the figure
  of Goodman Brown

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The Fiend

• The fiend in his own shape is less hideous, than
  when he rages in the breast of man.
• Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your
  only happiness. Welcome, again, my children, to
  the communion of your race!

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A Little Verbal Jousting

• Is the Basic Nature of MankindGood or Evil?
• Using The Things They Carried, House of Sand and
  Fog, Young Goodman Brown, and (for honors) The
  Scarlet Letterformulate your opinion and
  discuss.
• Support your thoughts with direct quotes and
  passages from the material at hand.