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Hawthornes's Young Goodman Brown And Rappacini's Daughter: Solicited by the Devil
In Puritan Massachusetts the key word was suspicion. In order to be accepted, by
the community, you had to be a member of the "elect," destined for a spot in the
eternity of heaven. In order to be member of this elite group of "selected"
individuals you had to be free of sin and evil. It goes without saying, that you
could never be caught conjuring ....
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.... and Hawthorne is throwing in all
the stereotypes. This entire search for the devil is portrayed as being very
ugly. What then is pretty? In Young Goodman Brown beauty equals inherent
goodness, or Faith. Young Goodman Brown separates from this righteousness, for
evil. From the beginning, he was leaving, at least for the time being, Faith
behind. "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into
the street, letting the wind play with the soft r ....
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