“Evil is the nature of mankind”(1), chilling words said to the group of people who may be exploring vice for the first time. “Young Goodman Brown” is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne an author known for putting morals and exhibiting iniquity in his stories. This short story was written in the era of the Dark Romantics notable for exhibiting human thought while exploring vice. “Young Goodman Brown” is also a moral allegory shown by the usage of numerous symbols to convey Hawthorne’s lesson. It’s very possible that Hawthorne was trying to convey the moral of the closer evil is the more sin that is likely to be committed and for that reason stay close to one’s faith he displays this moral through the use of symbols.
At the onset of his journey Young Goodman Brown meets with a stranger and he symbolizes the devil. It’s inferred that he has some supernatural power when the stranger says, “The clock of the Old …show more content…
Her name means strong belief in God and trust. Whenever he thinks about Faith he turns to his religion, turning his back to the stranger and therefore sin. When he turns back from his journey it is at the church facing Faith (1). When he loses his trust in Goody Cloyse he says “What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven: Is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?” (4). This shows how faith prevents him from following the sinful path of his teacher and how being so close to Faith deters him from the temptation of sin. When he does think that Faith is lost there’s nothing stopping him from succumbing to the temptation of sin. When he thinks that Faith is lost he submits to the will of the devil who is evil and says, “Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (5). He then goes mad and becomes a monster of evil as described by Hawthorne, “But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other
At the onset of his journey Young Goodman Brown meets with a stranger and he symbolizes the devil. It’s inferred that he has some supernatural power when the stranger says, “The clock of the Old …show more content…
Her name means strong belief in God and trust. Whenever he thinks about Faith he turns to his religion, turning his back to the stranger and therefore sin. When he turns back from his journey it is at the church facing Faith (1). When he loses his trust in Goody Cloyse he says “What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven: Is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?” (4). This shows how faith prevents him from following the sinful path of his teacher and how being so close to Faith deters him from the temptation of sin. When he does think that Faith is lost there’s nothing stopping him from succumbing to the temptation of sin. When he thinks that Faith is lost he submits to the will of the devil who is evil and says, “Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (5). He then goes mad and becomes a monster of evil as described by Hawthorne, “But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other