Hawthorne is also remembered for helping to establish the short story as a respected form of literature and as a proponent of instilling morals and lessons into his writing. Though a work of fiction, "Young Goodman Brown" is widely considered to be one of the most effective literary works to address the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Although Goodman Brown has decided to come into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hides when he sees Goody. Brown is unable to forgive the possibility of evil in his loved ones and as a result spends the rest of his life in desperate loneliness and gloom. In Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne reveals what he sees as the corruptibility that results from Puritan society’s emphasis on public morality, which often weakens private religious faith. At the end of the story, it is not clear whether Brown's experience was nightmare or reality, but the results are nonetheless the same. Goodman Brown sets off on a road through a gloomy forest. ‘Young Goodman Brown’ is an 1835 short story by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Summary Read our full plot summary of Young Goodman Brown. Brown's illusions about the goodness of his society are crushed when he discovers that many of his fellow townspeople, including religious leaders and his wife, are attending a Black Mass. Young Goodman Brown is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was first published in 1835. "Young Goodman Brown" tells the tale of a young Puritan man drawn into a covenant with the Devil.
The tale first appeared in the April issue of New England Magazine and was later included in Hawthorne's popular short story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, in 1846. "Young Goodman Brown," written in 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is known for being one of literature's most gripping portrayals of seventeenth-century Puritan society.
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