Setting and Its Effect on Understanding Young Goodman...

Setting and its Effect on Understanding Young Goodman Brown nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Every tale ever told shares similar formal elements. All of these formal elements have equally important consequence on a story. The setting of a story has direct correlations to the way that the reader consumes the meaning of the story. The setting in Young Goodman Brown allows its author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, to leave the ending ambiguous, without closure. The reader is constantly expected to decide for themselves truth. Literal interpretation, widely accepted after its initial publication, respected the story as a puritan fable. The message of which: Without faith in God you are defenseless against the evils of the world. This paper is written†¦show more content†¦The most haunted town in America at the time of publication was Salem, Massachusetts. It wasn’t by coincidence that Hawthorne chose Salem as the setting for his ghost story; he had family ties to the very events which mad e Salem infamous. So he sets the story in a forest outside the town of witches still inhabited by devilish Indians. The forest is an important part of the setting as well. The forest in those days seemed vast and endless and much of it remained unexplored and foreign. Safety was achieved by living in communities. Those who chose to wander into the forest oftentimes never returned. The early Americans did not trust the Native Americans or their ancient religions and practices. The settlers believed them to be the devils servants. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;In this setting no illusion is beyond the devils control. Without his faith, Goodman Brown is helpless to resist the wickedness of the devil.. Hawthorne alludes to devil’s magic by comparing his own staff as the very one the Egyptian magicians transformed to a serpent. A witch who lost her broomstick appears along the path. Her identity: the old lady who taught young Goodman Brown his catechism. 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