Goodman Brown Delusion

The Young and Delusional Goodman Brown When faced with a realization that everything you have known to be good and true is actually an illusion, is the very moment your world begins to fall apart. Goodman Brown begins a spiritual journey with the purist token of evil as a guide. When he slowly discovers that the world he has known is a deception of his traumatized mind. Goodman Brown resides in the perfect God fearing community, until he discovers that the God they fear may not be the Puritan deity he once knew. Faith is a peculiar name for Goodman Brown’s young wife, given the outcome of his situation. Does Faith exist outside of Goodman’s mind, or is she actually a representation of his faith? I believe these are all characteristics of not
The object and goal of this task are unknown even to Goodman. Spiritual journeys are often depicted as a glorious and celebrated event but are actually the conscience leading its’ vessel through a time of turmoil. As Goodman progresses into the forest, he meets the being that will help him draw aside the sable curtain of delusion and see his beloved neighbors for the wicked coven they have always been. When greeted by the old man, Goodman recognizes him to be an older version of himself. The old man claims to have know Goodman Brown’s father and grandfather. I believe this “old man” is actually Goodman Browns spiritual guide that will lead him to discover the evil that he has lived with his entire life. The forest represents clouded view of Goodman Brown while the clearing that he enters represents reality. The old man is clearly a depiction of not only the devil but of the evil that Goodman has locked away. This old man is the part of Goodman Brown that falls in line with the rest of the townsfolk. As the pair progress through the forest they meet Ms. Goody Cloyse, a woman that Goodman holds dear to his own heart. Goody taught him a series of questions and answers referred to as catechism. Goody identifies herself to the old man as a witch, as if to explain herself as one of his own. Realization begins to set in, was this catechism actually the doctrine of the witches coven? Upon
Faith tries to convince Goodman to ignore the errand. As Goodman progresses through the forest he scolds himself for abandoning Faith to carry out this task. This is Goodman’s mind realizing that he has left behind his false hope to discover an unknown objective. Goodman hears Faith’s voice through the trees but can’t find her. This is Goodman trying to abort his task and return to his shrouded life but to no success. As Goodman approaches the center of the gathering, he brings with him his faith in the form of his wife. Goodman refuses to submit to the coven, using his final coherent breath to scream out to the remaining thread of faith for his God. Faith is a person belief in something, Goodman wanted to believe in a better world to the extent that he used his faith as a crutch to make it through the day. That is when he created Faith, the only person he could trust. After waking up Goodman’s faith has dwindled, explaining the lack of communication between the