Puritan Depravity and Distrust in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

The collapse of Puritan and distrust of the teachings of the young Goodman, Brown, Puritan need constant self-inspection to make sure that all people are completely corrupt, they are sinners and not worthy of God's grace Then I taught. When Adam was eaten from the tree of knowledge, Human beings violated the "labor agreement", so God proposed a new contract to the people of Abraham and believed that paradise of election is just a possibility. In Puritan religion believers do their duties to recognize the negative aspects of their human beings, not the gifts they have.

"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835. This story shows the Calvinist / Puritan belief that all human beings are in a degenerate state done in the general scene of Puritan New England, Hawthorne's work, but God has already overcome the outdated It is destined. Grace of unconditional election. Hawthorne often pays attention to the tension of Puritan culture, but it is steep in Puritan's sin. This story tells the story of self test of Jan Goodman Brown in a symbolic way and leads him to lose his virtue and belief.

This is the essence of Hawthorn 's small faith allegory. According to "Young Goodman Brown", the teachings of Puritan created a common psychology of self-satisfaction, estimation, hypocrisy, which conflicted with completely mean disgust. As a result, morality confuses truth, good and evil, good and evil. As emphasized that Hawthorne chose Salem Witch trial in 1952, Goodman Brown's spiritual portrait is also spreading to the community - the spiritual portrait of the community is also in the spiritual portrait of a new country Extend. When writing "Young Goodman Brown", America has a history of 60 years. The nature of the country is still defined. As Hawthorne accepted the historical view that the founder of that country's Puritan transferred their character to the national identity, this role will be handed down to their domestic descendants, so this psychological portrait will be in the United States It becomes a portrait of itself.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is a good example of the use of fables and symbols as a satirical form of Puritan's faith. Frank Preston Stearns, author of Nathaniel Hawthorne's book "Life and Genius", says: It's hypocrisy "(Stearns 181). - William Golding is a British writer. He wrote several novels and received the Nobel Prize for literature. His most famous novel is "Flying King" issued in 1954. In the fly lords, William Golding uses various themes and symbols to express the focus of the novel. These symbols include pig heads, shellfish, and boys. The author uses symbols to indicate rules and errors in society. The first symbol is a conch