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The Allegory of Young Goodman Brown

 
   Nathaniel Hawthorne?s ?Young Goodman Brown? is an allegory, though an allegory with deficiencies, with tensions existing between the reader and the story.

 

Peter Conn in ?Finding a Voice in an New Nation? explains Hawthorne?s style of allegorizing and how it creates unwanted tensions for the reader:

 

He once planned to call a group of his stories ?Allegories of the Heart,? and in that unused title he summed up much of his method and his subject. His chosen terrain lay between the realms of theology and psychology, and allegory provided the means of his explorations. . . . 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 o... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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