The goodman brown5/27/2023 Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was obsessed with the Salem Witch Trials of the late 1600s. Like many young men, religious or not, he has been socialized to battle the righteous battle, even when there is nothing there to fight. Young Goodman Brown is upstanding, publicly pious, and somewhat innocent for someone knee-deep in 1690s New England. He goes into the woods in search of good and evil. It is a tale about a Puritan who leaves his beautiful young wife for the night. Nevertheless, she taught Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “ Young Goodman Brown” for many years. This teacher worked at a religious school where even Shakespeare was censored. An English teacher I know could not show the musical Man of La Mancha because it had a prostitute in it.
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