Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, Young Goodman Brown, is about a religious man who lives in Salem. Goodman Brown is traveling for the night, and has to leave his wife, coincidently named Faith, but he promises to return to her the next day. He meets up with an older man, who is not really memorable, except for his staff, “which bore the likeness of a great black snake,” (Hawthorne, 2). This is an uncanny moment because, even though Freud may not fully agree with Ernst Jentsch idea, that if someone has “doubts whether an apparently animate being is really alive; or conversely, whether a lifeless object might not be in fact animate,” it can cause a strong feeling on the uncanny (Freud, 5). Not to mention, that the staff is described with lifelike
