Nathaniel hawthorne goodman brown7/2/2023 Brown’s new psychological state never allows him to accept the evil nature and the hypocrisy of his ancestry. So, while he lives among his countrymen he is not one of them. In the end not only does he liberate himself from these cultural shackles, but he also seems to rise above them. Thus, Brown turns into a rejectionist of all the teachings of his Puritan culture. In fact, what urges Brown to step farther into the dark wood is an insistence to discover the whole truth so as to put an end to any vacillation between threatening possibilities suggested by the devil about the Puritan society to which he belongs. Eventually, the result is a short-lived schism in his psyche. It focuses on Brown’s psychological motivations that lead him to leave his village, Salem, on a journey to be taken literally and allegorically along with the inner conflicts thereof. This paper investigates socio-psychological alienation in Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown”.
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