Both of the discoveries make out to be a hidden evil. Man vs Nature is explored when Brown is curious about the temptation that the devil is offering. He expresses to go back at times, but continues on with sin. Brown thinks that he can see how sin is and then go back to a godly lifestyle, but, he is soon in for a rude awakening. The forest is a place for both fear and possibility. The forest reflects the thoughts of his own mind; full of confusion and terror. Despite the fact that Brown is accepted into the fellowship with the sinners and devil he isolates himself as he deals with the conflicted thoughts of fallen nature. Some critics insist that “Young Goodman Brown enacts a deep-seated guilt-consciousness in his journey to the heart of the wilderness and through those experiences in the forest, he comes to know the duplicity of human nature.”(Tritt 2). This reveals Browns lack of his true consciousness on this side of evil, but Hawthorn wants to present those evil thoughts to make his point that the Puritans actions were not always so
Both of the discoveries make out to be a hidden evil. Man vs Nature is explored when Brown is curious about the temptation that the devil is offering. He expresses to go back at times, but continues on with sin. Brown thinks that he can see how sin is and then go back to a godly lifestyle, but, he is soon in for a rude awakening. The forest is a place for both fear and possibility. The forest reflects the thoughts of his own mind; full of confusion and terror. Despite the fact that Brown is accepted into the fellowship with the sinners and devil he isolates himself as he deals with the conflicted thoughts of fallen nature. Some critics insist that “Young Goodman Brown enacts a deep-seated guilt-consciousness in his journey to the heart of the wilderness and through those experiences in the forest, he comes to know the duplicity of human nature.”(Tritt 2). This reveals Browns lack of his true consciousness on this side of evil, but Hawthorn wants to present those evil thoughts to make his point that the Puritans actions were not always so