Nathaniel Hawthorne, well known for his attacks on outlandish Puritan ideology in "The Scarlet Letter", has always incorporated some aspect of his life and beliefs into his works. Once again, he has successfully conveyed a strong moral concept by utilizing various literary techniques to reveal a disturbing outlook into a man's soul in his story "Young Goodman Brown". Hawthorne characteristically injects suitable symbolism, imagery, and pessimism into his tale, but the most conspicuous literary device …
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…used the ending of "Young Goodman Brown" as a testament to all cultures and their core-deep hypocrisy. Just as something very much like this probably happened one hundred years ago, it remains to happen today. The irony is just as apparent and the sins are just as present as in this story, but each of us is looking through a set of eyes equal to belonging to a villager in the town of Goodman Brown.