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An 8 page paper which considers how Hawthorne explores the theme of sin in each story, through metaphor and symbolism, to reach dire conclusions about the Puritan religion of his New England contemporaries. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGnhsin.rtf
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zero tolerance for moral indiscretions and the general consensus was that the road to hell was paved with good intentions that werent quite good enough. Sin was a temptation
that was synonymous with the devil, and no one could fall victim out of human weakness. It had to be the result of some type of evil spell or
a detour from the straight and narrow path of righteousness into a dark wilderness, where witches rites rather than religious sermons reigned supreme. Hawthorne found Puritanism a most unforgiving
religion, and sin and the lack of salvation for sinners emerges a prevalent theme in two of Hawthornes most popular short stories, "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Ministers Black Veil."
Puritan New England was "a society based on divine revelation" (Coale 42). In his short story, "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne acts as tour guide as
he demonstrates how easy it can be for even the most outwardly devout believer to descend into sin. The text is filled with haunting references to "faith, the moral
wilderness, and black masses" (Coale 42). His narrative "leads the reader into the dark forest as clearly as Brown leads himself" (Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed
Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent townsperson would venture into during the light of day let alone in
the dark of night (Easterley 339). It is an allegorical journey in both the physical and metaphysical sense that is traveled within a 24-hour period as symbolized by sunrise
and sunset. Sunrise conjures up images of innocence, of new beginnings, while sunset can represent either an ending or a period of transition. Using symbolic adjectives like threshold,
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