Download Young Goodman Brown Pdf Book By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown Pdf

“Young Goodman Brown” is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne’s works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to the unconditional election through unmerited grace. Hawthorne frequently focuses on the tensions within Puritan culture, yet steeps his stories in the Puritan sense of sin. In a symbolic fashion, the story follows Young Goodman Brown’s journey into self-scrutiny, which results in his loss of virtue and belief.

Young Goodman Brown Summary

The story begins at dusk in Salem Village, Massachusetts as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for some unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her, but he insists that the journey must be completed that night. In the forest, he meets an older man, dressed in a similar manner and bearing a physical resemblance to himself. The man carries a black serpent-shaped staff. Deeper in the woods, the two encounters Goody Cloyse, an older woman, whom Young Goodman had known as a boy and who had taught him his catechism. Cloyse complains about the need to walk; the older man throws his staff on the ground for the woman and quickly leaves with Brown.

Details Young Goodman Brown Pdf Book

Name Of the Novel: Young Goodman Brown
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Fiction
Published in: Mosses from an Old Manse
Publication date: 1835 (anonymously) in The New-England Magazine; 1846 (under his own name) in Mosses from an Old Manse
Book Type: Pdf / ePub