In “Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals the wicked Devil not as a physical person but as the human conscious of every individual to further his moralistic point of view through the dishonesty, greed, and diminishing religious beliefs of the characters.
Nathaniel Hawthorne displays Goodman Brown and Faith’s dishonesty as an immoral value brought forth by the presence of the Devil in them. For example, while considering the importance of the meeting at hand, Hawthorne states, “of all…
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