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This 5 page paper discusses the themes of fate and free will as depicted in Hawthorne's short story: Young Goodman Brown. Quotes cited from sources. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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rest of his community does not. This story is also thick with allegory about Puritanical values as regards fate and free will. Fate and Free Will, Hawthorne seems to be
saying, are two sides of the same coin. Young Goodman Brown is on an errand. How this errand was arranged and what it is all about, the reader is never
told. However, upon meeting an elder gentleman in the forest his cozy, well defined, black and white world suddenly acquires shades of gray. In other words, his world as he
knows it, is about to end. Nearly everyone who has meant anything to him, personally, spiritually or emotionally, is involved in sordid affairs and are not the people that
he has thought them to be. Was it fate? Or, were they all destined to choose of their own free will to become a part of the ritual in the
woods? During the time in which Nathaniel Hawthorne lived there was a movement by the transcendentalists. Hawthorne, as well as many other well-known
authors of the day, including Edgar Allen Poe, disagreed with the movement. In his two of his short stories, Young Goodman Brown, and The Minsters Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne seems
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown
decides not to meet the devil in the woods, he is aghast to learn that nearly all of the townsfolk have met the devil and are even on good speaking
terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes point that the religious groups of the time silenced the very gift
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