Our faith, our ability to believe, not only keeps us true to ourselves, but it also binds us, the human race, together in all of our totality. No matter ones’ ethnics, ones’ religion, or ones’ ideology, faith is a collective. And if one is disconnected to one’s beliefs, then he will become incredulous to all and lesser as a person. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, this is expressed by utilizing symbolism; symbolism in the form of the protagonist, Goodman Brown, and his wife, Faith. As the story develops, Brown, once a pious and compassionate man, embarks on a journey, leaving his faith, and returning as a degraded and skeptical being.
In the beginning of the novella, Faith, applicably titled, is utilized as not only a symbol …show more content…
The attire and form of Faith are operated as a tool to easily express the two previously labeled symbols of Faith; for example, Brown “… exchange[s] a parting kiss with his young wife. And faith… thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap” (Hawthorne 1). The parting kiss shared between the two symbolizes the literal and abstract. What can be easily analyzed from the kiss is that they are soon going to depart, separate, but it can be examined even farther and can be determined as a catalyst of future events. It functions as a portent that Brown should stay with what he loves and his faith rather than advancing through his journey; moreover, Faith is surrounded by descriptive words such as “pretty”, “young”, and “… letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap”, and thus …show more content…
They were my good friends, both; and many a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and returned merrily after midnight (Hawthorne 2).
This could be just a simple plight from the Devil to cause Brown distress, or it could be reality and Brown’s connection to his religion, faith, was a farce. Despite the fact Brown is not eager to travel further, he walks
In the beginning of the novella, Faith, applicably titled, is utilized as not only a symbol …show more content…
The attire and form of Faith are operated as a tool to easily express the two previously labeled symbols of Faith; for example, Brown “… exchange[s] a parting kiss with his young wife. And faith… thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap” (Hawthorne 1). The parting kiss shared between the two symbolizes the literal and abstract. What can be easily analyzed from the kiss is that they are soon going to depart, separate, but it can be examined even farther and can be determined as a catalyst of future events. It functions as a portent that Brown should stay with what he loves and his faith rather than advancing through his journey; moreover, Faith is surrounded by descriptive words such as “pretty”, “young”, and “… letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap”, and thus …show more content…
They were my good friends, both; and many a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and returned merrily after midnight (Hawthorne 2).
This could be just a simple plight from the Devil to cause Brown distress, or it could be reality and Brown’s connection to his religion, faith, was a farce. Despite the fact Brown is not eager to travel further, he walks