Loss Of Faith In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

To begin with, young Goodman brown’s wife, Faith, literally represent Goodman’s faith in the story. In the novel, it shows the reader specific occasion’s where Faith reveal’s herself as young Goodman’s only hope in this world and if that hope is lost than he is as well. In the story, “young Goodman Brown” after the Devil leaves Goodman Brown alone in the forest, Goodman States, “With heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!” as long as he has his “faith he will never give in. Later after he makes that statement he hears what sounds like Faith yelling from deep inside the forest so he runs after the screams and sees Faith’s pink ribbon implying that she has been taken away thus losing his sanity for his “faith”