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Young Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown The short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials. The story was written and published in 1837 in Hawthorne’s “Twice Told Tales” shortly after Hawthorne’s graduation from Bowdoin College in Maine. Hawthorne’s main influences stem out of the New England Puritan culture. The Salem Witchcraft Trials and his puritan family background all shine through in his creation of this short story. One of his forefathers, Judge Hathorne actually presided over the Witchcraft Trials in 1692. (Note the change in spelling of the last name to help clear his name from the witchcraft incidences) According to my research, several of Hawthorne’s works deal directly with issues such as good vs. evil, alienation and isolation, and in Young Goodman Brown spiritual growth and pride. This story involves a young man’s journey into vast, unknown, uncharted back woods in Salem, Massachusetts. A place where it would be difficult to convince many people of that time to travel, but this is no vacation for Goodman Brown. It goodman, brown, young, story, salem, hawthorne’s, evil, witchcraft, ways, trials, spiritual, journey, hawthorne, woods, through, short, puritan, people, name, massachusetts, isolation, faith, deal, complete, clear, awareness, 1692, written, works, within, witch, vs, vast, vacation, upon, unknown