The Hawthorne Perspective of Puritans in America

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The Hawthorne Perspective of Puritans in America
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The Hawthorne Perspective of Puritans in America
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote eloquently in the short story Young Goodman Brown about some of the illusions under which Puritans in America beguile themselves. In the beginning of the tale, Goodman Brown was taking leave of Faith, his newly married wife, to go on a journey into the forest to attend was to be a Sabbath meeting of witches. The manner in which he bade farewell reminding Faith to say her prayers at night in the opening scene certainly emphasized the fact that the couple was devoutly Puritan. However, the name “Faith” was a sarcastic element which was to belie the issue in the tale that...

.....ho seemed to have benefitted the most from its initial act of salvation.
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