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Ambiguity in ?Young Goodman Brown?        

 
  There is no end to the ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Young Goodman Brown?; this essay hopes to explore this problem.

 

Peter Conn in ?Finding a Voice in an New Nation? makes a statement regarding Hawthorne?s ambiguity: 

 

Almost all of Hawthorne?s finest stories are remote in time or place. The glare of contemporary reality immobillized his imagination. He required shadows and half-light, and he sought a nervous equilibrium in ambiguity. . . . Where traditional allegory was secured in certitude, however, Hawthorne?s allegorical proceedings yield only restlessness and doubt. The stable system of correspondences that tied allegory?s images and ideas together was lodged squarely upon the religious orthodoxy that Hawthorne rejected. In his belated version of the sacramental world, the links binding visible to spirit have become vexed and problematic. . . . The flickering, uncertain revelations offered by the physical world in Hawthorne?s fiction allow simultaneously for confession and concealment, for discovery ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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