Extremism Revealed in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Extremism Revealed in Young Goodman Br protest   Hawthorne depicts a 17th speed of light prude attempting to reach justification as chocolate-browns conviction required. Upon completing his journey, however, Brown could not confront the terrors of evil in his spunk and chose to reject all of society. prude justification was a topic Hawthorne was witting of as a journey to hell necessary for a honorable man. Having referred to the heart of man as hell, puritans founds themselves in the midst of Satan and his host of devils as he established his kingdom in mans heart. This was a dreadful revelation that cause Brown to grow bitter and distrustful. Puritan communities, secured by their orthodox faith, dealt with the ungodly wilderness around them. Set in Salem during the too soon witchcraft day of then, Young Goodman Browns experience in the dark, evil forest correlated and would have been recognise by Puritans as a symbol of mistrust of their own mollycoddle hearts and faculties. Just as man could not trust the shadows and figures he saw hidden in the forest, he could not trust his own desires. Those desires had to be tested through and through his journey into the forest. Those evil spirits endlessly tortured the Puritan, constantly reminding him of his sin and the battle in his own heart. Hawthorne used the presence of this demon in Young Goodman Brown by demonstrating, through Brown, the Puritan Journey towards Justification. Going through the forest towards Justification was label by the disappearance of the self. In place of the self, was the awareness of helplessness and the illusions of sin. This awareness would then assist the moral man to no longer work out upon material things or people, but to put his faith solely upon God. Hawthornes knowledge of the historical background of Puritanism combined with the personal experience of his early life and the history of his own family merge into the statement that Young Goodman Brown mak es. A system in which individuals cannot trust themselves, their neighbors, their instructors or even their ministers cannot give rise and atmosphere where faith exists. Hawthornes tale places the newly wed Puritan Brown upon the road to what may or may not be a true conversion experience. The conversion experience, a sudden realisation brought about by divine intervention, a vision, or perhaps a dream, easily translates into the dream of Hawthornes work and allows the author to use Puritan doctrine and the history of Salem to argue the merits and consequences of such a belief.