Deeper in the woods, the two encounter Goody Cloyse, an older woman, whom Young Goodman had known as a boy and who had taught him his catechism. The man carries a black serpent-shaped staff. In the forest he meets an older man, dressed in a similar manner and bearing a physical resemblance to himself. Faith pleads with her husband to stay with her, but he insists that the journey must be completed that night. The story begins at dusk in Salem Village, Massachusetts as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for some unknown errand in the forest. In a symbolic fashion, the story follows Young Goodman Brown's journey into self-scrutiny, which results in his loss of virtue and belief. Hawthorne frequently focuses on the tensions within Puritan culture, yet steeps his stories in the Puritan sense of sin. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace. " Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"ฤก835 (anonymously) in The New-England Magazine 1846 (under his own name) in Mosses from an Old Manse
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