![]() ![]() Set in Saleem village in the 17th century, the book addresses the weakness of public morality, hypocrisy, the belief that all humanity exists in a state of depravity and focuses on a young Puritan who undergoes life alternating experiences when he accompanies the devil to a ceremony deep in the woods. The temptations Young Goodman Brown faced between remaining good (faithful to God and his wife) and siding with evil as the rest, is typical of the temptations Jesus went through in the Bible, but unlike Him, the protagonist falls prey to the hunter and goes as far as judging those who preached good but practiced evil in the dark. ![]() Just like the story of the Pharisees, the author takes the readers through how characters like the Catechist, Deacon, and the Minister preached God, exhibited themselves as religious with an outward appearance of being clean and yet their mask of righteousness hid a secret inner world of ungodly thoughts. Reading Nathaniel Hawthroneâs Young Goodman Brown reminds me of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Bible. ![]()
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