Young Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story that follows the exploits of Goodman Brown over a night where he gets a glimpse for the souls of the people around him. The story starts innocently enough - Goodman Brown is leaving to go on a short trip, one that after it he says he will "cling to her skits and follow her to Heaven." Goodman Brown then proceeded to enter the …showed first 75 words of 1029 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1029 total…either in England or America, however the story would seem to fit more if the setting was in England. The theme of the story is that man does have a conscience - where the narrator could have gotten away with his crime with no punishment, his conscience played with him in the form of a beating heart to enable him to confess his crimes and to therefore ease his conscience about killing the old man.