Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown In "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a 17th century Puritan attempting to reach justification as Brown's faith required. Upon completing his journey, however, Brown could not confront the terrors of evil in his heart and chose to reject all of society. Puritan justification was a topic Hawthorne was aware of as an internalized journey to hell necessary for a moral man. Having referred to the heart of man as hell, Puritans found themselves in the midst of Satan and his multitude of devils as he established his kingdom in man's heart. This was a dreadful revelation that caused Brown to grow bitter and distrustful, just as it did with 17th Century Puritans. Hawthorne in "Young Goodman Brown is able to develop the conflict of the story through the conflict within the setting, the identification of conflicts, and the resolution to the conflict. The time era is approximately a generation after the time of the witch trials. Puritan communities, secured by their orthodox faith, dealt with the ungodly wilderness around them. Set in Salem during the early witchcraft day of 1692, Young Goodman Brown's experience in the dark, evil forest correlated and would have been recognized by Puritans as a symbol of mistrust of their own corrupt hearts and faculties. The forest, dark and evil, represented the deceit and darkness of man's heart. Just as Brown

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A Day To Remember...

My day to remember My day to remember happed on October 19th 2007 and it was definitely was a day to remember for me. It was my friend Farhans birthday and we decided to go to Thorpe Park and celebrate with a couple of friends. He wanted to take a limousine and it was amazing! When we got into the limo, it was extraordinary. The journey was really fun since we were listening to music at full volume. When we got to Thorpe Park, the rides were gigantic. We decided to go on the ride colossus first since it was the best ride in the park. The cue was the longest part of the ride; it was 2 hours long! When the ride finally started, it was phenomenal. There were hair-raising twists and turns at a furious 45mph but it wasn't as fast as Stealth which was so fast, it went from 0 to 80mph under 2 seconds. After that, we went on tidal wave and it was brilliant. By the time we got out of it, we were all drenched. When it went up, we were all excited but when we were going down, the intensity increased rapidly whereas in other rides like samurai and nemesis inferno were scary as soon as you got on it. When we were about to go on nemesis inferno, Abdul and Waqar got scared so only me, Farhan and my cousin went on it. After the ride stopped, we got hungry and everybody got bored and wanted to leave. We all enjoyed the rides until closing times which was 6 'o' clock so we called the

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