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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown”, the lead character is a young seventeenth-century newlywed puritan man who has a lot of pride. He makes one nighttime journey into the forest that changes his life forever. The path he ven ....

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... for intimacy with their wives. It appears that Brown hasn’t been able to fully adjust from his mother’s love to the physical married love. Perhaps he is shocked that Faith has sexual desires and she isn’t ashamed to let her desires be known. As she kisses him goodbye in the doorway the breeze gently blows the pink ribbons in her hair. “She is clearly the more intimate of the two” (42) and this seems to alarm Young Goodman Brown. As Brown walks into the forest he meets up with a fellow traveler who states he is late since “the clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston and that is full fifteen minutes agone.” (Hawthorne, ...