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The Devil In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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Young Goodman Brown In the short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” by author Nathaniel Hawthorne, A young man named Goodman Brown was a man with an innocent heart believing that everyone around him is virtuous. Although he began to see that the once thought to be virtuous people followed the devil, he believe that the devil took control of their minds instead of them doing so of their own free will. Nonetheless, he too slowly grew corrupt by the devil as he battles to keep his faith. Goodman Brown believed in the virtue of everyone he knew – his father and grandfather, Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and Faith. However, that all changed when he finds out that the devil had a part in their life. Goodman Brown walks the devil into the
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