Morality and Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

"Young Goodman Brown" was published in 1835 when Nathaniel Hawthorn was 31 years old. Born and born in Salem, Massachusetts, Hawthorne is still full of 17th century Puritanism. At the age of four, Hawthorne's father died, and since then has been surrounded by two sisters, a teenage girl, and a retired mother who is not near her children. He had little contact with his deceased father's family, but his mother's relatives were very cooperative and I thought he was at college.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about a fable. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story passed through the distortion of religious leaders. In "Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a priest of Puritan, after encountering the devil, he became proud to interfere with the relationship between himself and the community and put it in his community. Live an exile. "Young Goodman Brown" began with asking Brown's wife Fess to keep on "chores". Goodman Brown told his "love and (my) faith": "Tonight, I need to be away from you." When he said his "love" and his "belief" , He was with him. My wife told me that he was talking about his "beliefs" about God. He rushed into the forest to see the devil, and by doing so he and his wife left faith in God without doubt. He decided to "follow her with a skirt and follow her up."

In "Young Goodman Brown", Hawthorne reveals that Puritan society believes it emphasizes the corruption of public morality. It often weakens private religious beliefs. Goodman Brown decided to enter the forest and meet the devil, but he was still hidden when he saw Gudi Clossey and heard the minister and deacon Gogin. It is not because he decided to meet the devil, but he seems to care more about his beliefs with others. Goodman Brown's religious belief is rooted in the belief that people around him are also religious. This belief depends greatly on the views of other people and can easily be weakened. When Goodman Brown discovered that his father, grandfather, Goody Krose, Minister, Goulkin Deacon, and Face all joined the Devil, Goodman Brown decided to do the same at once. When they copy the beliefs of the people around them, their beliefs weaken and the roots become hard.