Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, October 1st, 2005
"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart" (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" has been and continues to be read from a seemingly endless variety of critical perspectives. The story, let alone Hawthorne himself is a critical industry in its own right. Of all of these rich critic...
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