Tag: literary analysis
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Denying the Darkness of the Human Condition in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegory, “Young Goodman Brown,” explores the consequences of denying the darker side of one’s own human condition. On the surface, it’s about a Puritan in seventeenth century Salem who loses faith in humanity after attending a black mass in the forest, and discovering that the pious townspeople are followers of the devil. But…
The Whale Belly 