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Nathaniel Hawthorne honors Dante in Young Goodman Brown

nd taking off on one's journey into the Boston night life, over the 24.75 year span would come to exactly 1290.5 nights away from home. This, one night a week ritual, is not an uncommon activity for most men, even in our own era, so Goodman Brown becomes the archetypal symbol for all his male counterparts past, present, and future Notice how the 1290.5 nights coincides with Dante's Beatrice dying in June 1290 AD. Notice how Goodman Brown points out that he lost Faith. Here Hawthorne infers that Goodman Brown lost Faith on that first fatal night away from home not midway through their marriage. He may well have come to terms with it midway through his life with her but his addiction began on that first night and it would build to a crescendo where it was not possible for him to put a stop to it. He had realized he lost her on the first night.If we are to equate the two one quarter spans of time as the same symbol Goodman Brown would never be late again. He was made to lament not keeping his appointment because of his honeymoon period, with his wife Faith, but that time is over with and will never be an excuse again.If Goodman Brown were 25 years of age when he married then 25 years later he would be 50 years of age. The gentleman he met in the forest was 50 years of age. It is finally Hawthorne description of this individual that convincingly demonstrates it is the elderly Goodman Brown. It also points to Goodman Brown's apprenticeship as a young man ("in the same rank of life", "was as simply clad", "and as simple in manner")."As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveler was about fifty years old, papparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still, they might have been taken for father and son. And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable...

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