In “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne reveals what he sees as the corruptibility that results from Puritan society’s emphasis on public morality, which often weakens private religious faith. Although Goodman Brown has decided to come into the forest and meet with the devil, he still hides when he sees Goody Cloyse and hears the minister and Deacon Gookin. He seems more concerned with how his faith appears to other people than with the fact that he has decided to meet with the devil. Goodman Brown’s religious convictions are rooted in his belief that those around him are also religious. This kind of faith, which depends so much on other people’s views, is easily weakened. When Goodman Brown discovers that his father, grandfather, Goody Cloyse, the minister, Deacon Gookin, and Faith are all in league with the devil, Goodman Brown quickly decides that he might as well do the same. Hawthorne seems to suggest that the danger of basing a society on moral principles and religious faith lies in the fact that members of the society do not arrive at their own moral decisions. When they copy the beliefs of the people around them, their faith becomes weak and rootless.

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Which of these sentences has an error in subject-verb agreement? A. Official procedures calls for students who are tardy three t

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Make five conditional sentences to express your plan for the near future ( for students)

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1) If I go to my friend's house for dinner tonight, I will take a bottle of wine or some flowers.

2) I am still not sure if I will go to his house or not.

3) When I have a day off from work, I am going to go to the beach.

4) I have to wait until I have a day off.

5) If the weather is nice, she is going to walk to work.

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