Puritan Values In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne is attempting to reveal good and evil sides of human and make people realize some Puritan values as well. The devil employs pathos and ethos in order to convince Goodman Brown to follow him by being trusted. The strong social relationships with his grandfather, his father and many high-class people are reliable evidence to Goodman Brown, because one of the Puritan values is that people’s relationships are very tight and trustful to each other, and they Puritan values hopes that everyone need to maintain conformity. Besides, Devil does not display how bad he is, and he does not force Goodman Brown to trust him. Because of his deceptive appearance and attitude, Goodman Brown is more likely to decide
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