Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Young Goodman br possessed by Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman chocolate-brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that is mysterious with allegory.Young Goodman embrown is a moral story, which is told through theperversion of a religious leader. In Young Goodman dark-brown, Goodman brownish is a puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himselfinterfere with his relations with the corporation after he meets withthe devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his owncommunity.Young Goodman brownish begins when Faith, Browns wife, asks him not togo on an errand. Goodman Brown says to his jazz and (my) Faiththat this one night I must tarry by from thee. When he says hislove and his Faith, he is talking to his wife, but he is alsotalking to his faith to beau ideal. He is venturing into the woods to meetwith the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith inGod with his wife. He resolves that he will cling to her skirts andfollow her to Heaven. This is an example of the excessive pridebecause he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because ofthis promise that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony tothis promise because when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn he can no long-acting look at his wife with the same faith he had before.When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that thereason he was late was because Faith unbroken me back awhile. Thisstatement has a double meaning because his wife physically preventedhim from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faithto God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil.The Devil had with him a staff that exhaust the interchangeableness of a greatblack snake. The staff which looked like a snake is a reference tothe snake in the story of ex and Eve. The snake led Adam and Eve totheir destruction by leading them to the Tree of Knowledge. The Adamand Eve story is similar to Goodman Brown in that they are bothseeking unfath omable amounts of knowledge. Once Adam and Eve ate fromthe Tree of Knowledge they were expelled from their paradise. TheDevils staff eventually leads Goodman Brown to the Devils ceremonywhich destroys Goodman Browns faith in his fellow man, thereforeexpelling him from his utopia.Goodman Brown almost immediately declares that he kept his meetingwith the Devil and no longer wishes to continue on his errand with theDevil. He says that he comes from a hunt down of honest men and good