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Young Goodman Brown
Title: Young Goodman Brown
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1375 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown
"'Lo! There ye stand, my children,' said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its
despairing awfulness, as if his once angelis nature could yet mourn for our miserable race.
"Depending on one another's hearts, ye had still hoped, that virtue were not all a dream. Now ye
are undeceived! Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again,
my children, to the …showed first 75 words of 1375 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1375 total…This is yet another difficult and unyielding paradox, with
which Hawthorne seems ultimately concerned.
Hawthorne seems to say that good and evil as absolute states are neither preferable nor realistic. His use of this
character, who is unable to function within an immutable version of ultimately mutable concepts, is more about the
things that exist in between these two states than it is about a definitive statement on outlining a definition of
"proper" human behavior.
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