village of Salem

1. The village of Salem, a community of god-fearing Puritans. The young man named Goodman Brown says goodbye to his wife, leaving his home before the journey into the forest. Faith, wearing pink ribbons in her cap, asks him stay home because she has troubling thoughts. He will not return until next morning. Goodman Brown sets off on a road through a dark forest and the thoughts of the devil in the forest do not leave his head. Man is the figure of the devil. Goodman Brown occasionally wants to turn back and return to the faith, but he continues to go forward. On the way, Brown meets an old woman, whom he knew as a pious and honorable woman, but the outcome is a witch on her way to the ceremony, the devil in the forest. Soon he heard voices drifting from the ceremony and finds in them the voice of faith. Brown finds a crowd of people from the village, he knows people who have come to worship the devil. He experiences a shock upon teach of them his angelic wife Faith. When a Shape of Evil prepares to baptize the newcomers into the mystery of sin, Goodman Brown tells his wife: Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One. But as soon as he uttered the phrase, is one of the forests. He returns to the village and then life goes on. Was it a dream or reality? Brown did not find an answer. In any case, it will never be the same; he becomes suspicious, cautious, reserved. Brown lived my life in fear and despondency.
2. The action takes place in the second half of the seventeenth century in Salem, a town northeast of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritan settlers established Salem in 1626 under the name of Naumkeag. Several years later, the town changed its name to Salem. This part of the setting is of historical significance because the “Witch Trials” occurred in Salem, Massachusetts it is common knowledge that the Puritan time period was marked by intolerance and suspicion. This builds to the theme because the loss of faith is a result