Young Goodman Hawthorne

Abstract

To summarize Hawthorne’s attitude towards Puritanism it can be clarified that he was ambivalent to the ideology of his time. He was like Young Goodman Brown, as he went out to the forest to find out more about his community and after returning examined them with appraising eyes. Hawthorne was not always sure what he must doubt and what to accept without misgivings in the Puritan world but he wanted to look behind the surface of Puritanism and did not accept blindly the world around him, accordingly he van be construe as Young Goodman Hawthorne.