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Christina Del Rosario Professor D’Amato Approaches to Literature 9 October 2014 “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Analysis In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne incorporates symbolism, imagery, allegory, in order to underscore his themes of the hypocrisy of public morality and the inevitable loss of innocence. The short story takes places in Salem, MA during not only the Salem Witch Trials of 1962, but moreover the Puritan Intolerance and King Phillip’s War. Such a…

Young Goodman Brown, a man who decided to test his faith. He believes that his morals, and beliefs could never be changed. In reality, he never needed to challenge the path of goodness, if he stays on the same road, he will stay the “goodman” that he is, without malicious thinking. We are born pure, and with goodness, but through life we gain knowledge that distort our thinking. That was the case of Young Goodman Brown, he decided to go on the journey that he knew he will be tempted by malicious…

from thee”. The woods and the pink ribbons all come together to resemble the darkness and temptation of young goodman brown. The woods…

closer look, I saw Hawthorne’s clever use of symbolism. I particularly noticed this in his repeated mention of Faith Brown’s pink hair ribbons. Throughout the story, her pink ribbons are used as transitional cues of thematic changes. It may sound odd, but every time her ribbons are mentioned, it reminds me of those scene wipes/transitions in Star Wars-I can just picture her ribbons floating…

such as Red,Black,White,Pink,Blue and Brown has been used to identify classes of people resulting in segregation and or negative attitude towards a group of people. Many colors have been used in the story and each has a meaning. and for each person, the color differs. start with Faith and her pink ribbons and white clothes.The pink ribbons that Faith puts in her cap represent her purity. The color pink is used to show innocence, and the ribbons themselves are shown to be the modest…

destination. The path symbolizes his journey through life. The last symbol in this story is Faith’s pink ribbon that she wore. The pink ribbon symbolizes innocence. In the beginning the ribbon was secure on Faith’s cap when Brown left for the woods, but towards the middle Goodman Brown loses his innocent faith and becomes certain that Faith has been tempted by the devil when he sees her pink ribbon fluttering down from the cloudy sky and snagged in a tree. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” The…

Faith are operated as a tool to easily express the two previously labeled symbols of Faith; for example, Brown “… exchange[s] a parting kiss with his young wife. And faith… thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap” (Hawthorne 1). The parting kiss shared between the two symbolizes the literal and abstract. What can be easily analyzed from the kiss is that they are soon going to depart, separate, but it can be examined even farther and can…

with her as long as she is considered innocent. The color pink can be seen as a mix of white for purity and red for sin. A significant source of information pertaining to the mood typically associated with the ribbons is found Hawthorne says, “ ... he looked back and saw the head of Faith still peeping after him with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons” (1). This establishes the typically positive and happy mood that the ribbons are typically related to in addition to showing the…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown," the author uses secrecy and tension to grasp and keep the reader’s attention. Throughout the short story, Hawthorne leads the reader into questioning, "what is the actual purpose of this story?” or “what is the message the author is trying to give?” The reader needs to look at "Young Goodman Brown" not only as a climatic story but also analyze the abundant amount of rhetorical devices the author uses to convey his message. Hawthorne shows…

“And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown.” Goodman Brown had to overcome his own faith to enter the dark forest in the first place. “Faith kept me back a while” While walking through the forest Goodman Brown meet a lot of people who are great…