Examples Of Allegory In Young Goodman Brown

The short story “Young Goodman Brown” is a great example of an allegory. Allegory is a story that can be interpreted to reveal a message. The author, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Goodman Brown as a symbol is the story as well as his wife, Faith. The main event which was Goodman Brown’s journey into the woods also shows allegory. The main characters Young Goodman Brown and his wife, Faith are tested by evil. As the story explains, Brown is an average man with a common last name in his village. His wife, Faith is described as an innocent Puritan woman. Her pink ribbon symbolize her being an innocent woman. The phrase in the story “And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street….” (1) shows that Faith does not