- Salem Witch Trials
- Puritan intolerance of Quakers
- King Phillips War
Gothic Character - Nature in Woods
"For his dying hour was gloom"
He sees his wife now as a human being instead of a perfect ideal
Red and white = pink
passion and purity
girlishness
set apart from the browns and gray of Puritans
"My Faith is gone"
Themes
Woods - scary, outside of his comfort zone outside the safety of the village (community)
Faith as a symbol of what he's leaving
Young Goodman Brown - gothic?
"For his dying hour was gloom"
He sees his wife now as a human being instead of a perfect ideal
Red and white = pink
passion and purity
girlishness
set apart from the browns and gray of Puritans
"My Faith is gone"
Themes
- Nature of "community"
- Appearance vs reality
- Loss of trust and innocence
Woods - scary, outside of his comfort zone outside the safety of the village (community)
Faith as a symbol of what he's leaving
Young Goodman Brown - gothic?
- supernatural
- Creepy setting
- sense of history
- horror/terror
- White - purity, red - passion, pink
- Wilderness as experience
- Faith
- Religion, faith in humanity
- Human being
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