Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “the battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Humans have a choice from the very start, to chose sides between good or evil. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn believes that the choice of humanity derives from the heart of all humans. What about human nature? Is it a choice? Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed that humans from the dawn of time were constructed evil. Through the parable of “ Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays through a friendly Devil that humans are so fundamentally evil and corrupt through Faith, Goodman Brown, and Brown’s ancestors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates a casual devil that people are born wicked through Mr. Brown. Early in his …show more content…
Mr. Brown’s young wife Faith knowing her own evil heart and her desire to journey into the dark forest that fateful night tried unconvincingly to keep her husband home. “A woman alone in troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afraid of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!” () Faith who appears to have concern for her husband to be pure and all that is good in life. She is the biggest personification of a wicked corrupt heart in the story. She was the one person her husband believed to be absolute goodness. Even the demonic town’s people going to the forest meeting described her as a goodly women. Faith with all the appearances of purity and goodness, right down to the wearing of pink ribbons in her hair, is the most painfully corrupt and evil person. Mrs. Brown was so determined to know the secret sins of others. She had to uncontrollable urge to know the mystery of sin, and was able to hide this so well from everyone. “Now ye undeceived! Evil is the nature of all mankind. Evil must be your only happiness” (). Faith stood next to her husband pale and shuddering with eyes wide open to the horror of the wickedness of their hearts. Faith was able to return to her former hypocritical life of pretending to be full of joy. She continued to disguise her wretched self under her pink ribbons. For a lifetime she pretended to care for her husband and bore many children and grandchildren. In the end Faith’s hypocrisy as the most corrupt and wicked of all the human heart with no persuasion from the Devil
Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates a casual devil that people are born wicked through Mr. Brown. Early in his …show more content…
Mr. Brown’s young wife Faith knowing her own evil heart and her desire to journey into the dark forest that fateful night tried unconvincingly to keep her husband home. “A woman alone in troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afraid of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!” () Faith who appears to have concern for her husband to be pure and all that is good in life. She is the biggest personification of a wicked corrupt heart in the story. She was the one person her husband believed to be absolute goodness. Even the demonic town’s people going to the forest meeting described her as a goodly women. Faith with all the appearances of purity and goodness, right down to the wearing of pink ribbons in her hair, is the most painfully corrupt and evil person. Mrs. Brown was so determined to know the secret sins of others. She had to uncontrollable urge to know the mystery of sin, and was able to hide this so well from everyone. “Now ye undeceived! Evil is the nature of all mankind. Evil must be your only happiness” (). Faith stood next to her husband pale and shuddering with eyes wide open to the horror of the wickedness of their hearts. Faith was able to return to her former hypocritical life of pretending to be full of joy. She continued to disguise her wretched self under her pink ribbons. For a lifetime she pretended to care for her husband and bore many children and grandchildren. In the end Faith’s hypocrisy as the most corrupt and wicked of all the human heart with no persuasion from the Devil