Young Goodman Brown Irony Analysis

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Hawthorne uses irony to highlight how a great act can criticize a man to a bad life and paranoia. We can suppose that Goodman Brown's denial to knowledge the Devil's invitation to is a moral act. He resists the Devil even though Adam and Eve fell for it. The biggest irony in Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown" is that Young Goodman Brown, named after a grandfather who was "an old friend" of the devil and does not benefit Brown.

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