The narrative can be seen as a struggle between good and evil from a Christian perspective or from a moral perspective with no affiliation towards God or religion. Philosophically Hawthorne poses the question whether or not a man battles himself or supernatural forces in his quest for a good life when he asks, “Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting,” (page 349). Readers of a Christian faith will, most likely, relate to the symbol of the companion’s staff being snake-like to the temptation Eve felt from the serpent in the Garden of Eden. However, a non-Christian may interpret the serpent to be a more universal representation of
The narrative can be seen as a struggle between good and evil from a Christian perspective or from a moral perspective with no affiliation towards God or religion. Philosophically Hawthorne poses the question whether or not a man battles himself or supernatural forces in his quest for a good life when he asks, “Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting,” (page 349). Readers of a Christian faith will, most likely, relate to the symbol of the companion’s staff being snake-like to the temptation Eve felt from the serpent in the Garden of Eden. However, a non-Christian may interpret the serpent to be a more universal representation of