The
theme of is the fragility of human spirituality.
frames his short story
as an , and the names of the two main characters, Goodman and Faith, immediately reinforce the
religious undertone. Hawthorne uses seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts as the setting for
many of his works, which allows him to critique the Puritans and specifically their teaching of
predestination.
After young Goodman Brown encounters the devil and the
seemingly dark religious event in the woods, his religious beliefs are clearly shaken. The woods
are described as...
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