Extension from the Text
1. Speaking
Say something about "Young Goodman Brown", giving play to yourimagination based on clues in the text.
"Young Goodman Brown" is one of Hawthorne's most famous short sto-ries. It deals with the titular hero's adventures on a certain night in the forestand their influence upon his subsequent life. Brown is an ordinary man living inSalem village. One night, after his marriage, he leaves his wife, Faith, and goesto the forest to meet the Devil there. And then he continues his company withthe latter in spite of his unwillingness. Brown is very surprised to discover manyworthy people and even his own wife in such a heathen wilderness at night. TheDevil incites the congregation to convert. The next morning Brown returns toSalem village, where everything goes as before as if nothing had happened. ButBrown has become a changed man, behaving differently until his gloomy death.
2. Cloze
Goodman Brown, like most people, wants to experience evil, not perpetu-ally, of course, for he is by and large a decent chap, a respectably married man,a member of a church, but he desires to "taste the forbidden fruit" before set-tling down to the business of being a solid citizen and attaining "the good wife".He feels that he can do this because he means to retain his religious 1) faith,personified in his wife, who, to reinforce the 2) allegory, is even named Faith.But in order to encounter 3) evil, he must part with his 4) wife, at least tempo-rarily, something he is either 5) willing or compelled to do. It is here that hemakes his fatal mistake, for 6) evil turns out to be not some abstraction norsomething that can be played with for a while and then put down, but the very7) pillars of Goodman Brown's world--his ancestors, his earthly rulers, hisspiritual overseers, and finally his Faith. In short, so overpowering is the factand the 8) universality of evil in the world that Goodman Brown comes to doubtthe existence of any 9) good. By looking
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