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1、Unit 13: Young Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne,1804-1864),outline,About the author Important works Warm up questions Background Information Plot summary Analysis Critical response and impact Symbols and images,About the author-Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864),Born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts W
2、riting centers on New England Moral Allegories with a Puritan inspiration Fictional Works are considered part of the Romantic Movements, or more specifically, Dark Romanticism. Inherent Evil and Sin of humanity. Believe in Determinism, a theory of Predestination.,FAMILY HISTORY,“Great-great grandfat
3、her, William Hathorne, ordered the whipping of Anne Coleman and four others in the street of Salem. Great grandfather, John Hathorne, was the magistrate presiding over the trial of the accused witches of Salem in 1692.,IMPORTANT WORKS,Short Stories: Twice-Told Tales (1828) Mosses from an Old Manse (
4、1846) Novels: Fanshawe(1828)* The Scarlet Letter(1850) Biography: The Life of Franklin Pierce(1852),Warming- up Questions: 1. What do you know about Hawthorne? 2. Is there sin or goodness when one is born? 3. Is there sin in everyones heart? 4. Do you have your own faith? What do you think is the us
5、e of a persons faith in his life? 5. What do you like the story “Young Goodman Brown”? What is it about?,Plot summary,The story begins at dusk in Salem Village, Massachusetts as young Goodman Brown leaves Faith, his wife of three months, for some unknown errand in the forest. Faith pleads with her h
6、usband to stay with her, but he insists that the journey must be completed that night. In the forest he meets an older man, dressed in a similar manner and bearing a physical resemblance to himself. The man carries a black serpent-shaped staff. The two encounter Goody Cloyse, an older woman, whom Yo
7、ung Goodman had known as a boy and who had taught him catechism, in the woods. She complains about the need to walk and, evidently friendly with the stranger, accepts his snake staff and flies away to her destination.,Other townspeople inhabit the woods that night, traveling in the same direction as
8、 Goodman Brown. When he hears his wifes voice in the trees, he calls out but is not answered. He then seems to fly through the forest, using a maple staff the stranger fashioned for him, arriving at a clearing at midnight to find all the townspeople assembled. At the ceremony carried out at a flame-
9、lit rocky altar, the newest acolytes are brought forth Goodman Brown and Faith. They are the only two of the townspeople not yet initiated. Goodman Brown calls to heaven to resist and instantly the scene vanishes. Arriving back at his home in Salem the next morning, Goodman Brown is uncertain whethe
10、r the previous nights events were real or a dream, but he is deeply shaken, and his belief he lives in a Christian community is distorted. He loses his faith in his wife, along with all of humanity. He lives his life an embittered and suspicious cynic, wary of everyone around him. The story conclude
11、s: “And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave. they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom“.,Analysis,Th story could be divided into three parts. The first part shows Goodman Brown at his home in his village integrated in his society. The second part of
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