In the short story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne the symbols he is using are allegories to the moral of the story. The moral of the story can be explained many different ways but the moral is everything/ everyone that look good to the public eye isn’t always good behind closed doors or dark places. Young Goodman Brown discovers that from sunset to nightfall the outside world is different, you see things that shouldn’t be seen, and your Faith is tested it’s all up to yourself to not let evil take over your mind. Young Goodman Brown is man from Salem Village, the village of Puritans. A Puritan is a person who is a part of a group of very religious people who believe anything or anyone that is not like their belief is evil and considered
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He even lost his faith in his wife Faith because she was pose to be the one to help him keep faith and not let him lose sight in what God had in store for his journey. But after returning all he could do was think about how Faith didn’t want him to go on the journey in the beginning because she knew she would be there doing the works of the devil. And when he lost all Faith he couldn’t even stand to be in church around those people because he seen them as phonies and fakes, during the day they are pure but at night things change. Goodman changed he didn’t pray with his family anymore or anything he was numb to the ones who protruded to be good but were evil on the inside. Goodman was never the same after that journey. All things that are pure during the daytime can change at night. At night evil things can corrupt you to do things that you don’t even want to do you have to hold on to Faith the way Goodman Brown held on. Losing his faith was his worst mistake it made become an evil-being to the people in Salem Village but he had only seen the evil in other people which caused his change of life. The moral is everything that is good to in the public eye is different behind closed doors. So be careful who you let lead your life you never know their living maybe evil behind closed
He even lost his faith in his wife Faith because she was pose to be the one to help him keep faith and not let him lose sight in what God had in store for his journey. But after returning all he could do was think about how Faith didn’t want him to go on the journey in the beginning because she knew she would be there doing the works of the devil. And when he lost all Faith he couldn’t even stand to be in church around those people because he seen them as phonies and fakes, during the day they are pure but at night things change. Goodman changed he didn’t pray with his family anymore or anything he was numb to the ones who protruded to be good but were evil on the inside. Goodman was never the same after that journey. All things that are pure during the daytime can change at night. At night evil things can corrupt you to do things that you don’t even want to do you have to hold on to Faith the way Goodman Brown held on. Losing his faith was his worst mistake it made become an evil-being to the people in Salem Village but he had only seen the evil in other people which caused his change of life. The moral is everything that is good to in the public eye is different behind closed doors. So be careful who you let lead your life you never know their living maybe evil behind closed