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        <title><![CDATA[What means does the devil use to persuade Brown to continue his journey...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What means does the devil use to persuade Brown to continue his journey to the devil baptism?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Brown enters the forest on a journey of personal discovery, an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brown enters the forest on a journey of personal discovery, an introduction into the world of the less.than.perfect.  He moves from people he knows in the village to members of his family right on to F/faith at the climactic scene at the &quot;black mass&quot; in the forest.  The closer the person is to him, the more his disillusionment grows.  Lost of his F/faith is the ultimate disillusionment.He doesn't turn back because this is a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:55:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot;, what are the stages of Brown's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot;, what are the stages of Brown's gradual disillusionment? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't think the story is about Puritanism; it's a coming of age story...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't think the story is about Puritanism; it's a coming of age story for a young man who, despite being supported and sheltered by his &quot;faith/Faith&quot; for years, must journey into the world of imperfection/sin.  After all, we are never sure that anything in the story happened, other than the fact that he entered the forest one evening and work up there in the morning.  The story is about how he reacts to what he thinks he knows...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:34:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have never really thought of Young Goodman Brown as such, but when I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have never really thought of Young Goodman Brown as such, but when I think about it, he does share some qualities of the romantic hero (see the first link below).Brown enters the wilderness to test his faith.  The Romantics valued the wilderness and saw it as a place to test themselves (think of Thoreau here) and tap into the power of nature.  They rebelled against the order and structure of the cities.  Certainly, when Brown leaves...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:13:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is Young Goodman Brown a romantic hero?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is Young Goodman Brown a romantic hero?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:21:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This exclamation has a double meaning. This is because "Faith" is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This exclamation has a double meaning. This is because "Faith" is Brown's wife and she is also a symbol for religious faith. After his experience in the forest, Brown does not know if his wife finally resisted the devil or became part of the devil's cult. Because he is so unsure about the outcome of the evening, he exclaims "My Faith is gone.---meaning his wife has made a pact with the devil and/or his religious faith is gone. Unfortunately,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:13:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What causes Brown to exclaim, &quot;My faith is gone!&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/young-goodman/q-and-a/what-causes-brown-exclaim-quot-my-faith-gone-quot-46215</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What causes Brown to exclaim, &quot;My faith is gone!&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:05:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Brown is no longer able to trust the goodness of people after his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brown is no longer able to trust the goodness of people after his journey into the woods in "Young Goodman Brown". Since Brown is not sure whether his experience was real or imagined, he sees hypocrisy in all the members of his community. What he never realizes is that there is both good and evil in every person. No one is perfect. Since he cannot accept the lack of perfection in mankind, he loses his trust in all of mankind.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:31:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Brown no longer see as a result of the journey in &quot;Young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Brown no longer see as a result of the journey in &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot;?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your word implications is an interesting choice.  For, the suggested...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your word implications is an interesting choice.  For, the suggested meanings of the journey into the forest are ambiguous since, as the previous response so aptly states, the reader does not know if Goodman Brown actually has gone into the forest.  Perhaps, then, what is implicated, or inferred, is that the forest is the dark region of the heart, the flawed part of everyman's heart that entertains the idea of evil and sin.  In order to assure...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most important symbol is the forest itself.  In part because it was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The most important symbol is the forest itself.  In part because it was the home of the Indians, in part because it was a dark pathless place, it is symbolically the home of the devil.  Brown must go on the journey into the forest just as we all must when we discover that the world and the people in it are not as perfect as we might think of them when we are young.  Sometimes we see this when we find that our parents are just people, not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:19:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot; when Brown goes into the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot; when Brown goes into the forest, “Hawthorne emphasizes the split between convention and the unconscious by having Brown move from the town to the country as he follows his impulses.  The deeper he moves into the forest, the more completely he becomes one with his ‘evil’” (Bunge 13). The forest is evil and the act of going into the forest is an act of faith.  Brown feels he can remain...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:07:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, what are the symbolic implications...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, what are the symbolic implications of Young Goodman Brown's journey into the dark forest?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:18:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Traditionally, the snake has been the symbol of evil and associated with...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, the snake has been the symbol of evil and associated with the devil.  (e.g. the serpent in the Garden of Evil)  When Goodman Brown meets his guide who has &quot;a staff, which bore the likenss of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist ans wriggle like a living serpent,&quot; there is an ambiguity established with this description just as there is an ambiguity about the interpretation...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the snake symbolize in &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the snake symbolize in &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:20:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The history of Salem and the witchcraft trials leads one to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The history of Salem and the witchcraft trials leads one to wonder what could have caused such strict Christians to have tortured people as they did and be so hypocritical. Still, the Puritans were banished from England because of their radical religious fervor, so perhaps the words of Friar Laurence of &quot;Romeo and Juliet&quot; hold true for the Puritans's excessive forbiddance of sin: &quot;Virtue itself turns vice, being...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Without the last three paragraphs, it wouldn't be a Hawthorne story ......]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Without the last three paragraphs, it wouldn't be a Hawthorne story ... in fact, it wouldn't have much of a point at all.  The whole idea is that, even though he doesn't really know anything for sure, Brown is willing to suspect the worst of all those he has lived without any real &quot;evidence.&quot;  Many of Hawthorne's stories are based on ambiguity ... that things are not always as they seem, that people are not always as perfect (or...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If the last three paragraphs were omitted, the reader would not know the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If the last three paragraphs were omitted, the reader would not know the reaction of Goodman Brown on the following day.  If &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot; ended with the dew besprinkling his cheek as he fell against the rock, (the end of the fourth last paragraph), the reader would have nothing but his/her own conjecture as to how the relationship of Faith and Goodman would continue.  Perhaps, the reader would find the cold dew symbolic...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The devil has been around in life and literature for a long time. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The devil has been around in life and literature for a long time.  Sometimes his appearance is frightening (&quot;The Divine Comedy&quot; or &quot;Paradise Lost&quot;) and sometimes his appearance is much more suave and subtle, perhaps representing the multiple ways that we are confronted with temptation in life.  The devil in &quot;Young Goodman Brown&quot; tends to fall into the more casual characterization.  He is not presented as a...]]></description>
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