Have you ever had an experienced that rocked you to your core and changed the way you regard the world around you? In the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist is doing exactly that, struggling to remain faithful to his beliefs. Brown leaves his wife on a journey of a wicked nature. While on this journey he is arguing with a dark man about continuing on this journey. He feels the pressures of a stigma that those around him are honest, good, faithful people. He begins to take notice of some of these same people on their own journey of wickedness and it changes him and his beliefs. Goodman Brown is struggling with his faith, and is tempted into sin, until one fateful night he finally understands that his world is imperfect, and hypocritical and loses his faith, turning him wretched.
Goodman Brown struggles with the idea of committing sin, and doesn’t want to leave his “Faith” for evil deeds. The wife is aptly named Faith because in the story she represents his actual faith or belief system. The struggle begins to show when he first leaves Faith: “’What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!’” (261). Discerning what a fool he is for turning his back on Faith to follow in the path of …show more content…
His journey towards the road of sin changed his life forever. He struggles to turn around and go back to his peaceful innocent life. When he begins to see those he viewed in the highest esteem, and sought their counsel for help with his righteousness and goodness traveling down the same road of sin, he is changed. He could not conciliate himself with the sin that he encountered on his journey, and he loses his faith, creating a hollow, dejected man. He could not go back and make his world right again, where everyone was admirable, and made the right decisions. He now recognizes the world around him for what it really is, not what he thought it to be, thus destroying his innocent and naïve opinions of the
Goodman Brown struggles with the idea of committing sin, and doesn’t want to leave his “Faith” for evil deeds. The wife is aptly named Faith because in the story she represents his actual faith or belief system. The struggle begins to show when he first leaves Faith: “’What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!’” (261). Discerning what a fool he is for turning his back on Faith to follow in the path of …show more content…
His journey towards the road of sin changed his life forever. He struggles to turn around and go back to his peaceful innocent life. When he begins to see those he viewed in the highest esteem, and sought their counsel for help with his righteousness and goodness traveling down the same road of sin, he is changed. He could not conciliate himself with the sin that he encountered on his journey, and he loses his faith, creating a hollow, dejected man. He could not go back and make his world right again, where everyone was admirable, and made the right decisions. He now recognizes the world around him for what it really is, not what he thought it to be, thus destroying his innocent and naïve opinions of the