I
especially liked the way Hawthorne revealed that all the righteous people of the village had
evil desires which they concealed from everybody else.and his wife Faith are both model citizens
who have an ideal marriage. Brown's wife does not realize that her eminently respectable husband
plans to attend some kind of devil-worshipping orgy in the forest; and, ironically, he discovers
that his angelic little wife is attending the same ceremony and taking a leading role in the
proceedings. What I didn't like was the way Hawthorne deliberately "painted over" his
own story, so to speak, by raising the question of whether what Brown had observed had actually
happened or whether it was only a dream.
Had Goodman Brown
fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?
Hawthorne seems to want to be saying that people all have dark
sides to their natures. Yet he...
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