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'''''Young Goodman Brown''''' is a short story written by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil.
 
'''''Young Goodman Brown''''' is a short story written by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil.
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==Status==
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I own this story in a compilation book and have read it.
  
 
==Review==
 
==Review==
Kinda dumb. I like how the Puritan is a crybaby, and how it turns out that pretty much everybody is a little evil after all, but the ending is a bit crazy. Why is everyone in the entire town a Satan worshiper? And what's with the disappearing act? Did Brown just have a nervous breakdown? I guess the moral is, don't be too much of a goody-goody or you'll waste your whole life suspicious of others, but it's kind of a dark way to end, and not a good kind of dark. Over all, I'd have to say that Kate Beaton's comic is way better.
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===Good===
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* I like how the Puritan is a crybaby, and how it turns out that pretty much everybody is a little evil after all.
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===Bad===
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* The moral, don't be too much of a goody-goody or you'll waste your whole life being suspicious of others, is a nice suggestion, but it's so ham-fisted, it's annoying.
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* The [[Hark a Vagrant]] comic is way better.
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===Ugly===
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* The ending is a bit crazy. Why is everyone in the entire town a Satan worshiper? And what's with the disappearing act? Did Brown just have a nervous breakdown?
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
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* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 gutenberg.org/ebooks/512] - Project Gutenberg.
 
* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 gutenberg.org/ebooks/512] - Project Gutenberg.
 
* [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388 harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388] - Hark a Vagrant comic strip.
 
* [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388 harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388] - Hark a Vagrant comic strip.
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* [https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029 librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029] - LibriVox.
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* [https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002 librivox.org/short-story-collection-002] - LibriVox.
  
  
 
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Revision as of 21:45, 31 July 2018

Canadian ebook cover.

Young Goodman Brown is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil.

Status

I own this story in a compilation book and have read it.

Review

Good

  • I like how the Puritan is a crybaby, and how it turns out that pretty much everybody is a little evil after all.

Bad

  • The moral, don't be too much of a goody-goody or you'll waste your whole life being suspicious of others, is a nice suggestion, but it's so ham-fisted, it's annoying.
  • The Hark a Vagrant comic is way better.

Ugly

  • The ending is a bit crazy. Why is everyone in the entire town a Satan worshiper? And what's with the disappearing act? Did Brown just have a nervous breakdown?

Links