...throughout the East before discovering him at home. While the earlier tale wonders problematically, "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?" (X, 89), in the latter tale the wild dreamer awakes at last. And while their search...

...really there, in their own persons, at the witch meeting. When Hawthorne asks whether Goodman Brown had "fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting," and replies, "Be it so if you will," he offers an alternative possibility to the nineteenth-century...

...Province of Piety, p. 82. 12. To take what is perhaps the classic example - "Young Goodman Brown": "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting? Be it so if you will" (T&S, 288). The sense of being cheated in this story might usefully...

...witch-meeting MNF: Se cuestiona la existencia de dicho cambio por falta de consciencia del personaje: "Had YG Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?" (Young Goodman Brown, p.47) 3.- CAMBIO MEDITATIVO En estos casos el personaje adopta...

...initiation, and witchcraft— gives him the authority to ask at the end, without diminution of intensity, 'Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?' The author can even say, 'Be it so if you will; but alas! it was a dream of evil omen...

...Goodman Brown would never know if his wife, Faith, had actually converted. And then Hawthorne asks, "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting?" (288). For Goodman Brown, this is a deeply troubling question that he can never answer, and he can...

...individualism challenged the rigid ideologies of Salem. Hawthorne suggests another interpretation of the story. "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?" If we follow this line of thought, the story is also about a husband's faithlessness...

..."his doubts alone had substance."69 Just as the narrator asks the reader of "Young Goodman Brown:" "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a 30 witch-meeting?",70 Giovanni asks himself "Am I awake? Have I my senses? What is this being? Beautiful...

...village. But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting. Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting ? Be it so if you will; but, alas! it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown....

...Hawthorne feels it necessary to allude to dreams from the very beginning, and finally to ask the question: "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting?" to provide his story with the mist of relativity. The final moral is up to the reader. Nevertheless,...