Curiosity In Goodman Brown

Curiosity is something that exists in every single human being, it has existed in us ever since the creation of the human. Curiosity is what brought humans to this very point in society, the technology we have, the techniques we use for survival, the ideas we have discovered all came from humans being curious. However curiosity does not always have a quality outcome, in humanity our curiosity also led to some devastations that humanity did not choose to see. Although curiosity brought humans to where they are right now, curiosity illustrates an inadequate truth about reality since it leads to an inevitable realization of how devastating reality really is.
Since the beginning of human life, we see the first steps of curiosity in history. It …show more content…
I have been as well acquainted... and returned merrily after midnight” (Hawthorne 2) .As we all know, Brown became curious by this stranger’s statement and wondered about what he meant by how he has been around him for a very long time. The stranger gives him viable information about how he has been with Brown throughout his life, by stating how he was with his grandfather when he lashed a woman, and his father who he helped to set fire in villages. Brown’s curiosity of what the strangers meant by how he has been around him, leads to an truth about how sinful Brown’s father and grandfather is. After the information about Brown’s grandfather and father, he became more curious about not just his family but his community as well. We can see a path where Brown will want to dig deeper into his own community and find out the truth, even he doesn’t want to he feels consciously that he needs to for his sake. When the stranger tells Brown how his own wife, priest, and even people he respected have visited the same forest and the himself, Brown is confused and devastated at the same time of what happened here. Brown knows that visiting the stranger only leads to two paths, choosing either sin or staying with his belief. However through analysis we see that all the people who chose sin are happier than those who stayed with Christ. Curiosity of …show more content…
Throughout the text we see curiosity but we don’t notice that they are meaning behind the curiosity and no matter what meaning it leads to inevitable realization of how awful reality is. In hard at work, the curiosity behind the text indicates a noble curiosity where the group studies the differences in work at other countries so that the group can bring light to help countries where they have a hard time. In conclusion, curiosity brings an inevitable realization into our reality of how contaminated it is; throughout the texts, we see that curiosity leads someone to an inevitable truth we did not seek