Young Goodman Brown Research Paper

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In life we tend to see the good in people, try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Some time people do not turn out to be who they say are. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”, Young Goodman Brown discovers that his whole village is full of evil people that worship the Lord during the day and worship the devil at night. Throughout the story Young Goodman Brown sees everyone differently and does not know who he can trust. This paper will be analyzing the story “Young Goodman Brown.”


The story takes place in the New Salem village. Young Goodman Brown’s journey takes place deep in the New Salem village woods at night. The book describes the road Young Goodman Brown took as “meloncholy”. The setting and time suggests that something is about to happen. The auther uses words like “dreary”, “darkened”, and “gloomiest”, to describe the path that Young Goodman Brown choose to use. Not only does it feel as though something is going to happen, but the senory is scary so it adds to the mood. …show more content…

Young Goodman Brown deals with his confusion and unsureness by himself because he does not trust anyone else now. Brown struggles with this by himself because he is sure that his wife of three months is among the devil worshipers. The central conflict is only internal because Young Goodman Brown is not sure that what he saw in the woods really happened or if he imagined or dreamed it himself. Throughout the story Young Goodman Brown struggles with his conflict internally and the audience never really sees it get

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