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The Ambiguity in ?Young Goodman Brown?

 
     The literary critics agree that there is considerable ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Young Goodman Brown.? This essay intends to illustrate the previous statement and to analyze the cause of this ambiguity.

 

Henry James in Hawthorne, when discussing ?Young Goodman Brown? comments on how imaginative it is, then mentions how allegorical Hawthorne is, and how allegory should be expressed clearly:

 

I frankly confess that I have, as a general thing, but little enjoyment of it, and that it has never seemed to me to be, as it were, a first-rate literary form. . . . But it is apt to spoil two good things ? a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible-feeding writing that has been inflicted upon the world. The only cses in which it is endurable is when it is extremely spontaneous, when the analogy presents itself with eager promptitude. When it shows signs of having been groped and fumbled for, the needful illusion is of course absent, and the failure ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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