Young Goodman Brown and Other Hawthorne Short Stories most often concern the hypocrisy of religion as opposed to the purity of true spirituality. These morality tales, which range from a parable about the dangers of vanity to an eerie tale of a demonic ceremony in which a young husband discovers that even his wife is sinful at heart, convey a Gothic sensibility, and often leave the reader unsure of what is real and what is imagined. Major themes include religion, sin, doom, and fear.
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