"What is your Birth Sin?' 'Adams sin imputed to me, and a corrupt nature dwelling in me." A Puritan is a member of English Protestants who advocated strict religious discipline. Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, "Young Goodman Brown," is meant as a critique to the ideals of Puritan faith. Goodman Brown personifies many of the puritan characteristics, which include fear and strict faith. Puritan dogma teaches that humans are absolutely corrupt and require endless self-scrutiny to …showed first 75 words of 1639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1639 total… true and vivid. For instance many of the elders of the church turn away from its teachings and resort to evil. This hypocrisy can only mean that the Puritan faith was wrong if the most educated in its ways turned from it. In conclusion Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, "Young Goodman Brown," is a shocking critique on the morality of the Puritan faith and the need for man to remain sinless by living within its nature.