ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritans

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

At the end of the novel he can"t trust anyone. Old man = supernatural = the devil / lucifer. There is no happily ever after at the end of the novel. Hawthorne doesn"t tell us exactly what happens at the end. It is up to our own interpretation. Faith (the character) is 1-d at the beginning. Various levels of interpretations will change the meaning of the story. This can"t be an allegory because faith herself has doubts (within 1 page of the story) 17th century new england are mostly puritans (who tend to be quick to judge others" faults and sins") The deacon and the pastor of the puritan faith were satanists as well. Quaker woman excerpt the constable, a puritan and a satanist whipped another type of christian in public and ran her out of the town. Hypocrisy of the practitioners their interpretation of the religion is the problem, not the religion itself.