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							Young Goodman Brown

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne
                   Allegory
1) An allegory is a story with a second distinct
   meaning partially hidden behind its literal or
   visible meaning, in which characters and
   events are intended as parallels to
   characters/ideas and events on another level.
2) Allegories rely on symbols (concrete objects
   that represent abstract ideas) and
   personification (giving abstract ideas human
   characteristics), as well as archetypes
   (recognizable character types, settings, plot
   situations, etc that appear in other examples of
   literature)
For each question, take notes and find
 at least one example from the text.

1. What characters seem to be personification of
   larger ideas? How does this help us understand
   the story?
2. What objects do you think are symbolic? How?
3. What aspects of the settings might be archetypal?
   How?
4. Re-read the last two paragraphs of the story.
   What does your group understand as the
   allegorical (parallel/partially hidden) meaning of
   the story? What are we to learn from “Young
   Goodman Brown”?