Young Goodman Brown Passages Analysis
After reading, Hawthorne's story, "Young Goodman Brown," I found several passages that interested me. The Arthur Hawthorne had a lot of run on and confusing sentences. His tone of this story was serious and straightforward, no jokes were told throughout story. However, I only spoke on passages that interested me. The passages deal with a relationship bond, and a devil showing evil things to break it, emotions, and feelings. Goodman and faith relationship interest me a lot. Goodman believed in faith and faith believed in him. They loved each other despising all evil dreams thrown their way.
One passage, when Goodman Brown was on his way to his journey after passing the threshold and he held his head back to exchange a parting kiss with his
young wife. She whispered, “Softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed to-night.”(pg35) It interest me due to the fact my boyfriend leave me at night along 4 months out of a year, while he go work 8 hours on third shift. This passage reminds me of my emotion being involved as long as faith feelings involved as well. She wants her husband to sleep in his own bed and I myself want my boyfriend to be home with me, but they can’t help it because they have a journey to make. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she's afeard of herself sometimes. Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year (35)." I afeard of myself sometimes staying along but I put it in God hands and ask him to watch over me every night.
Another passage, when Goodman Brown arrived back from his journey. Same place he left faith, she was standing in same spot, with same pink ribbon. Faith, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village (45). Faith was gladly to see him. While Brown wasn’t so happy, he was sad by his evil dream. Also this passage interested me because you can have all the bad dream of evil things, but only if you pray god see you through it. Even after I dream, I wake up all sad, but then look beside me my boyfriend made it home after his working journey.
If you don’t believe in god you would believe in all evil. All you have to do is pray on it and god sees you through it. Goodman asked faith to pray and she did just that and he returned back to his village. Goodman and faith resisted the devil throughout the passages that interested me. From the first passage to the second passage seeing the entire evil thing, Goodman and faith had a different outlook and a turnaround on their life.
Reference
(2013). Introduction to American Literature. (pp. 35-45). Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.
One passage, when Goodman Brown was on his way to his journey after passing the threshold and he held his head back to exchange a parting kiss with his
young wife. She whispered, “Softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed to-night.”(pg35) It interest me due to the fact my boyfriend leave me at night along 4 months out of a year, while he go work 8 hours on third shift. This passage reminds me of my emotion being involved as long as faith feelings involved as well. She wants her husband to sleep in his own bed and I myself want my boyfriend to be home with me, but they can’t help it because they have a journey to make. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she's afeard of herself sometimes. Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year (35)." I afeard of myself sometimes staying along but I put it in God hands and ask him to watch over me every night.
Another passage, when Goodman Brown arrived back from his journey. Same place he left faith, she was standing in same spot, with same pink ribbon. Faith, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village (45). Faith was gladly to see him. While Brown wasn’t so happy, he was sad by his evil dream. Also this passage interested me because you can have all the bad dream of evil things, but only if you pray god see you through it. Even after I dream, I wake up all sad, but then look beside me my boyfriend made it home after his working journey.
If you don’t believe in god you would believe in all evil. All you have to do is pray on it and god sees you through it. Goodman asked faith to pray and she did just that and he returned back to his village. Goodman and faith resisted the devil throughout the passages that interested me. From the first passage to the second passage seeing the entire evil thing, Goodman and faith had a different outlook and a turnaround on their life.
Reference
(2013). Introduction to American Literature. (pp. 35-45). Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.