Young Goodman Brown Character Analysis

The story Young Goodman Brown is by the famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Where Young Goodman Brown, leaves his wife Faith. He ventures off into the gloomy forest of Salem. He is quickly approached by an older man and his companion. Young Goodman Brown follows these two men wherever they go. Along their path they meet a woman, Goody Cloyse, who taught Young Goodman Brown his catechism. The companion starts to look like a devil and the woman starts to look like a witch. After some time Young Goodman Brown sits down and refuses to go any father. His friends go along without him. Goodman Brown begins to hear voices, along with Faith’s voice. He thinks he sees an alter, surrounded by trees. Young Goodman Brown was led to the alter, where a cloaked
Where Young Goodman Brown had seen people from his youth. The figure revealed them all as sinners, nothing that “evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness”(Becnel). The cloaked woman is revealed to be Faith. Before the figure could lay the mark of baptism on Young Goodman Brown, he called Faith to “look up to Heaven, and resist the wicked one”(Ellis). Then he finds himself all alone in the forest. The next morning Young Goodman Brown arrives back in town, extremely confused about all the events that happen the night before. He runs into many people he saw in the forest and all act as if nothing had happen. This story shows many types of symbolism. For example, Faith is Young Goodman Brown's wife is an symbol for Young Goodman's Brown faith. Although Brown dies a bitter man, blaming the wickedness and hypocrisy of others, he leaves his Faith first. The name Young Goodman Brown, symbolizes the innocence of young, good men, who are all tempted and to some extent all give in. The forest, Puritans believed the woods to be the
Throughout the ages, Satan has been a cultural symbol of ultimate evil, and Young Goodman Brown continues that tradition. In the story Satan represents a number of things, of them being the evil that lies within us all. When first meeting up with Goodman Brown in the woods, Satan is described as resembling an older Young Goodman Brown , with Hawthorne describing him as