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The True Meaning Of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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The story of ‘Young Goodman Brown’, is a story that is much deeper than what it appears to be on the surface. On it's surface, the story appears as nothing more than a tale of a man who experiences a hellish event. Upon further analysis, the story is a much deeper allegoric tale of the importance of faith, and how easily a person can be made or broken by an event. The ending of the story does put the readers mind at rest because in fact, it was just a dream. "A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did be become, from the night of that fearful dream". It appears that the realization of disbelief in his faith, Brown woke up and lived the rest of his life as a bitter and untrusting man. The dark forest that
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