Instruistoj Hat: Hawthorne and Young Goodman Brown

It seems of no consequence: what "they" thought was evil, and the modern dissipation in contrast, what would bugger church-focused youngling America, and the very complex, vague evils of today.

But the point is universal, across cultures, that the young husband wanted to find out the secret of the young wife, and he took to finding out, seeing what Maury would chime, "the lie detector has determined..."

Across a bridge of interpretation, following his bride, unknowing, into the night-time woods, is the same as catching her asleep during Captain America, and going through her phone.

Not unlike me catching my 9 year old Caitlyn with a stash of Cuban cigars.  "You should take a belt to that little ass."  Of course, thank you, but I don't really want to be a DSS casefile.

Me, telling her we don't support communism, and she telling me that she doesn't, that she's just a flaming nihilist, instead.

Not that we're at all, any of us, above that sort of thing.

And "goodman".  Como se dice?  Just a dude, a young man, young but grown, a man making his life, and titled in no other way, such that in the largely Puritan influenced church-focused America, a Mister is as such, with no encumbrances or liens upon his heritage, is known as a "goodman", and women?

Goodwomen.

Hawthorne, called a great American writer, and his horrific tales put in textbooks, is rarely yet spoken of as a good horror writer.  And he also dabbled a bit in science-fiction, but the labels of those elude his work, thanks to the lensing of early America and all that in his work.

Why, his very epoch of history has cemented him into the textbooks, that we have insight into what was horrific or heart-wrenching for that era of America.

For a young couple, a young husband, what's the bad thing that could happen?  Superlatively bad, when infidelity in early America was somewhat out of the scope of imagination, what would that point to as being a real evil for a young couple?

Answer next time.

As young Brown discovers something about his miss that he did not know.

"The lie detector has determined...."