Tuesday, May 6, 2014

In "Young Goodman Brown," how does Goodman Brown react to his wife and others upon his return to Salem? Why? Is he justified in acting this way?

Goodman
Brown has become thoroughly
disillusioned after witnessing the shocking sight of people he
always thought
were fine, upstanding pillars of the community engaging in a Satanic ritual.

Everything he previously thought was true now appears to be nothing more than a sham,
and so
it's not surprising that he should be so bitter about it.


Whether he's
justified in being this way is a different matter. One
can certainly understand Brown's feeling
the way he does towards people,
including his wife, who he once thought to be good, God-fearing
folk. But one
could argue that he only has himself to...

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