1. By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vickie Greenfield, Kelcie Knapp, Jackson Williamson
Young Goodman Brown
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born July 4th, 1804 in Salem Massachusetts.
Influenced by Puritan Society his whole life.
John Hawthorne’s (his ancestor) level of zealousness exemplified his role in Puritanism with his role as persecutor in Salem Witch Trials.
Hawthorn’s grandfather never repented his actions at the Witch Trials.
Met his wife, Sophia Peabody, in Salem.
Tried to escape Puritanism by joining a utopian community.
Had two Children: Una and Julian.
Died in his sleep May 19th, 1864.
Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

3. About nathaniel hawthorne
Always aspired to be an author.
Attended Bowdoin University ( ).
Hawthorne began writing as a result of a leg injury that left him immobilized for quite some time.
Graduated in the middle of his class.
Wide variety of talent.
Friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Franklin Peirce.
Appointed to overseas post of American consul in Liverpool.
Boston Custom House measurer in 1839.

4. Puritans migrated between 1630-1643.
Time Period
English Reform.
Puritans migrated between
Birth and expansion of the United States.
Feared Native Americans.
Puritanism was still relevant in Hawthorne’s time even though there wasn’t much influence left.
The American Romantic Movement.

5. The Minister’s Black Veil (1836) Twice Told Tales (1837)
Hawthorne’s work
Fanshawe (1828)
Young Goodman Brown (1835)
The Minister’s Black Veil (1836)
Twice Told Tales (1837)
The Birthmark (1843)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of Seven Gables (1851)
The Marble Faun (1860)
These are only some of Hawthorne’s great work.

6. Believed English Reformation was not extreme enough.
Hawthorne’s Religion
Puritan.
Extreme Protestants.
Believed English Reformation was not extreme enough.
Wanted to Purify the Church of England and eliminate Catholic influence.
Demonology.

7. Writing influenced by his religion.
Hawthorne’s Writing
Writing influenced by his religion.
Usually involves a deep interest in sin.
Often dark and gloomy.
Morally serious.
Aware of the grim legacy of Puritanism.
Used people that actually existed to emphasize their significance.

8. Self-trust versus accommodation.
Themes of his writing
Self-trust versus accommodation.
Conventional versus unconventional gender roles.
Obsessiveness versus open-mindedness.
Hypocrisy versus candor.
Presumed guilt or innocence.
Nurturance and destructiveness.
Penalties of isolation.
Crimes against the human heart.
Patriarchal power.
Belief in progress as opposed to nostalgia of the past.
Truths during dreams and reverie.
Impossibility of earthly perfection.
Weakness of public morality.
Inevitable loss of innocence.
The fear of wilderness.

9. Purity and loss of innocence.
Young Goodman Brown
Purity and loss of innocence.
Influence of a distaste for American Indians.
Events in the forest.
Deacon Gookin.
Witch Trials.
Setting.