Stick to Your Morals Kids.
At one point in a person’s life, he or she rebels. The pure people who realize their mistakes face the consequences for abandoning their ideals. Witnessing people in a different light then they would beforehand. In 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown shows what could happen when someone strayed from their path and the price he must pay. The story Young Goodman Brown is an example of the decisions we make that can change ourselves and outcomes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's moral of the story, Young Goodman Brown, is timeless due to how it can always be looked at and seen as true and constant. The moral would be “if you stray from what you believe is good, you will witness a side of yourself don’t wish to ever …show more content…
Everyone at one point in their life has strayed from pureness into evil. Where they meet a hellish version of themselves, or when on a journey into what they could become and become witness too. In Young Goodman Brown this is foreshadowed by “He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.”(Hawthorne, page 2)This is an obvious indication that something isn’t right but at the time it can be overlooked by the reader and Young Goodman Brown. The quote means once someone starts on the road to something good or bad the person won’t be able to go back if they change their mind. So make a decision and deal with the consequences or follow through with what is going to happen and face a different …show more content…
The Devil's main job is to stray people from the path of righteousness, and into sin and corruption. The Devil can be shown as many things whether it be a someone trying to pressure another into doing wrong, the actual Devil, or bad omens like seeing a black cat crossing. On the third page in the fifth paragraph the Devil talks about how he knew Brown’s grandfather ( a constable or policeman) explaining he helped when they slashed a Quaker woman in the streets of Salem. Showing that he had strayed another relative of Brown’s into committing wrong. It also shows that the devil or his actions can rear his head at any point in time. Furthermore shows that the devil will always try and steer you from the path of righteousness. It takes into thought that he had the devil over his shoulder guiding Brown’s relative, is like the devil and angel on someone’s shoulder.
Brown also finds out that the townspeople are not what they seem to be. All working with Satan, whether just being in the cult or participating in the events, like the witch. But either way if it be followers of someone personified as the Devil or the actual devil and his followers they will try to destroy one’s faith. Taking someone's faith and throwing it
At one point in a person’s life, he or she rebels. The pure people who realize their mistakes face the consequences for abandoning their ideals. Witnessing people in a different light then they would beforehand. In 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown shows what could happen when someone strayed from their path and the price he must pay. The story Young Goodman Brown is an example of the decisions we make that can change ourselves and outcomes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's moral of the story, Young Goodman Brown, is timeless due to how it can always be looked at and seen as true and constant. The moral would be “if you stray from what you believe is good, you will witness a side of yourself don’t wish to ever …show more content…
Everyone at one point in their life has strayed from pureness into evil. Where they meet a hellish version of themselves, or when on a journey into what they could become and become witness too. In Young Goodman Brown this is foreshadowed by “He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.”(Hawthorne, page 2)This is an obvious indication that something isn’t right but at the time it can be overlooked by the reader and Young Goodman Brown. The quote means once someone starts on the road to something good or bad the person won’t be able to go back if they change their mind. So make a decision and deal with the consequences or follow through with what is going to happen and face a different …show more content…
The Devil's main job is to stray people from the path of righteousness, and into sin and corruption. The Devil can be shown as many things whether it be a someone trying to pressure another into doing wrong, the actual Devil, or bad omens like seeing a black cat crossing. On the third page in the fifth paragraph the Devil talks about how he knew Brown’s grandfather ( a constable or policeman) explaining he helped when they slashed a Quaker woman in the streets of Salem. Showing that he had strayed another relative of Brown’s into committing wrong. It also shows that the devil or his actions can rear his head at any point in time. Furthermore shows that the devil will always try and steer you from the path of righteousness. It takes into thought that he had the devil over his shoulder guiding Brown’s relative, is like the devil and angel on someone’s shoulder.
Brown also finds out that the townspeople are not what they seem to be. All working with Satan, whether just being in the cult or participating in the events, like the witch. But either way if it be followers of someone personified as the Devil or the actual devil and his followers they will try to destroy one’s faith. Taking someone's faith and throwing it