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A 6 page paper
which examines the use of puritan thought in Nathanial Hawthorne’s story “Young
Goodman Brown.” Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
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young mans experience with the supernatural, the occult, and the surrealistic thus providing us with a great deal of material regarding symbolism as it involves Puritan thought, modern realities, and
Hawthornes own experiences and perceptions. Now, in the story we are never sure if it was a dream of Browns or a real experience, and as such can only presume
that his experience was somewhat related to the occult or the unrealistic, or perhaps Browns inability to see any other form of thought other than Puritanism. All of these perspectives
offer us a variety of symbolism within the story. And, like a great deal of literature, this is a story that has been analyzed and criticized from many different perspectives,
with the presence of the Puritanism and the occult being one of many perspectives. In the following paper we present an examination of Hawthornes story, examining it from a perspective
which addresses Puritanism and how it often uses the occult to further examine Puritan thought. Symbolism: Puritan and the Occult One of the most powerfully symbolic ways in
which Hawthorne presents us with an examination of the occult in this story is through the examination of puritan thought and influence. McCabe claims that "The influence of Puritan religion,
culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes works. In particular, Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown allows the
writer to examine and perhaps provide commentary on not only the Salem of his own time but also the Salem of his ancestors." When we understand something of the history
of Salem, as well as the history of Puritanism, we are provided the merits and consequences of such zeal, "especially the zeal of the Half-Way Covenant of 1662, the Puritan
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