Good And Evil In Young Goodman Brown

"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a symbolic description which leaves us in skepticism because he does not let us to realize if Brown's whole trip with the Devil is a nightmare or reality. Therefore, the story try's to give us a lesson and it, in fact, seems to explain what happens when a man loses his faith in God, faith in himself, and most of all in others. The story describes that both good and bad occurs, and it is ridiculous that only one stands on its own. Goodman Brown demonstrates both purity and corruptibility as he waffles between believing in the intrinsic goodness of the people around him and believing that the Devil has obsessed the minds of all people he loves. he believes that faith is clean and good, until
Brown to keep his appointment with the Devil in the forest, and he must choose to renege his "faith," or examine the evils that the Devil has to propose. Goodman Brown leaves his wife, Faith, and Village to keep his promise with the Devil. This is the moment of unreasonableness because he leaves his wife, home, and security to take a hazardous path. He doesn't want Faith to discover the evil motive of his errand because he says, " She's a blessed angle on earth; and after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to the heaven"(Hawthorne). Brown to think that he can rely up on his wife's "faith" to save him, so it won't affect if he leaves his own at home because it will be waiting for him. Brown to meet the Devil along a crooked path, and the Devil. Having read the whole story, it can be interpreted on two levels. Goodman Brown may feel, as he says that the exploration of the inner forest may be a sin. It is easier by far to follow the "accepted" path of faith, to walk, as the church often says, "in the light" (Hawthorne). By going through the light, and by pursue precisely the concept of Christian life and refraining from all situations where morality doe not isolate clear areas of black and white, one feels safe, clean, and perhaps ethical. By doing this, one also misses out on the depth, and the richness that adequate experience of life might offer.
He knows absolutely why he is going, but is not at all adapted for what he will discover there, namely the sinful nature not only of himself, but horrifyingly, also his wife. He appear from his experience absolutely transformed man, because he was not ready to accept the vision he would receive there with patience and elegance, he has been changed into the worst. Goodman Brown was presumed to master that everyone is human, and should be respected with compassion. Instead he learned that everyone is a sinner, and forever considers people with aversion. Enlightenment can convey great wisdom, but only those minds, which are open to realize and accept it, Goodman Brown was not. All in all, this story is a classic depiction of the fall of man into sin. If Brown had stayed home for his loyalty, all this suffers would have never occurred to him. He would not have any concrete reason to hesitate all the villagers and would have been capable to take pleasure from villagers. In short, the story teaches us that we don't doubt our faith or would fall into the hands of