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Examples Of Hypocrisy In Young Goodman Brown

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In “Young Goodman Brown”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the moral shortcomings that take place represent the hypocrisy during this time. During the early stages of the conversation between the Devil and Young Goodman Brown in the woods there then appears a small figure in the distance who is easily recognizable by Young Goodman Brown to be Goody Cloyse the woman who had taught him catechism and was his moral and spiritual adviser(Hawthorne 239). Goody Cloyse pretends to be an exemplary christian and person on the outside. However, during this event she is discovered to be a witch that worships the devil.She goes against every aspect of christianity and moral advice that she had taught Brown, representing how she is a true hypocrite and serves as

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