I need help in determining Hawthorne's style in "Young Goodman Brown" through literary devices. OK, so I'm writing an essay on Friday with the...

Well, you have
certainly put lots of thought into this! I like your idea, but I am not entirely convinced that
this story is a critique of Romanticism by making "the woods" a dangerous place as
opposed to the healing place that Romantics would consider it to be. Key to realise about
Hawthorne's style is that he writes allegorically very well, and it is obvious that in this tale
there are major allegorical references. Just consider some of the names, for instance -