Part one of term paper
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 ventures on takes him from his ordinary life into darkness where evil lurks. When the story opens ...

Part two of term paper
... home. “She desires intimacy with her husband. He doesn’t realize that it’s a sexual life with her that he’s running away from.” (Keil, p. 41) Many newlywed men would be more than happy to put off an errand 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 ...