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Title: Young Goodman Brown


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Young Goodman Brown
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Allegory- A piece of literature with two or more
levels of meaning. Symbolism usually occurs in
the characters, settings, and events of the
literary piece.
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Characters
Young Goodman Brown
Events
Settings
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Characters
Young Goodman Brown
Events
Settings
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Faith
Young Goodman Brown
Characters
Minor Characters
Traveler
Young Goodman Brown
Leaves Faith
Forest
Events
Settings
Meets with traveler
Town
Night
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Allegory ---Characters
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • Every young, common, good man
  • Faith
  • Spiritual faith morality
  • Traveler
  • Devil

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Allegory- Settings
  • Forest
  • Evil
  • Village
  • Puritan law holiness
  • Night
  • Evil

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Symbolism in objects
  • Pink ribbons
  • Faith
  • Color Pink
  • mix of purity and sin
  • white red (whitepurity redsin)

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Allegory---Events
  • Leaves wife
  • Leaves faith
  • Goes on an journey
  • Initiation into evil
  • Meets traveler
  • With the devil
  • Sees good people are not good
  • Baptism into evil (hypocrisy) in the world
  • Ribbons fall from tree
  • Loss of Faith (his wife) loss of Goodman
    Browns spiritual faith
  • Returns home bitter and withdrawn
  • Bitterness and guilt as a result of sin (evil)

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Theme
  • A theme is an overall main idea that can be
    applied throughout the story. What is the theme
    of Young Goodman Brown?
  • All men are sinners and live hypocritical lives.
  • All men are sinners, yet sin can be separating
    and damaging to man.

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