This literary Response will be based off the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This essay will be answering some questions about different characters and relations. These questions will show a little bit about the different characters and elements throughout this story. 1) Which character in your selected story stood out the most to you? Why? Be as specific as possible. The first question asks which character stood out the most in the story “Young Goodman Brown.” In this story, the most influential and talked about character has to be Goodman Brown himself. He stands out because of the different aspects of his character. He has recently married who he thought to be a great woman named Faith. He takes pride in the fact
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The characters in “Young Goodman Brown” relate to each other vastly. They all look like different people then who they really are. If you do not know what really lies in the hearts and minds of these characters, you may think they know everything there is to know about life. They all have good families and seem to be good Christian people, but there is a dark side to them. To understand them fully you must know the hidden aspects of their life. Each one has a secret that they hide because of shame. Their secret sin haunts them through the smiles and laughs that they put on every day. These people are all under the influence of a traveler of sin. This traveler of sin is symbolically the devil in disguise. He haunts them every night with his evil witchcraft. All fail and fall under his sinful lures, even those respectable citizens such as Goodman Brown, his wife Faith, the minister, and even the Deacon Gookin. Their lives are all intertwined with this secret sin. They all get along well during the day when they have their acts of goodness going, but during the night their real personalities begin to show. They do not acknowledge each other the way they would any time during the day. Maybe it is because they are ashamed of who they really are, people involved in the sin of witchcraft. This shame and sorrow for their acts towers over them to the point they cannot look at each other the same way they used
The characters in “Young Goodman Brown” relate to each other vastly. They all look like different people then who they really are. If you do not know what really lies in the hearts and minds of these characters, you may think they know everything there is to know about life. They all have good families and seem to be good Christian people, but there is a dark side to them. To understand them fully you must know the hidden aspects of their life. Each one has a secret that they hide because of shame. Their secret sin haunts them through the smiles and laughs that they put on every day. These people are all under the influence of a traveler of sin. This traveler of sin is symbolically the devil in disguise. He haunts them every night with his evil witchcraft. All fail and fall under his sinful lures, even those respectable citizens such as Goodman Brown, his wife Faith, the minister, and even the Deacon Gookin. Their lives are all intertwined with this secret sin. They all get along well during the day when they have their acts of goodness going, but during the night their real personalities begin to show. They do not acknowledge each other the way they would any time during the day. Maybe it is because they are ashamed of who they really are, people involved in the sin of witchcraft. This shame and sorrow for their acts towers over them to the point they cannot look at each other the same way they used