Faith In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

“Young Goodman Brown” Elbert Hubbard was an American publisher, philosopher and a writer. He once said “Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Browns faith is destroyed when he embarks on a journey through the woods; where he encounters a mysterious man who is a devil figure. His temptation brings him to a ceremony where he sees people he knows, including his own wife. Seeing people he once trusted at the ceremony makes him think twice, and in the end he loses his own faith. Young Goodman Brown showed that even the most self-righteous people can lose faith. When Goodman Brown’s temptation leads him to the ceremony, he does not realize what he