The Destruction Of Faith In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Goodman Brown is a faithful Christian until he begins to go on a journey to find his spiritual path. We are lead to believe that he arranges a meeting with the devil, by the devil later stating that Goodman is late. His wife, Faith, also a metaphor for his relationship with God test him and keeps him back from his journey for a small time. When Goodman enters the woods, they imminently close behind him, indicating that there is no return and he must finish his journey. He is soon surprised by an older gentleman that is lead to believe to be the devil. He says that Goodman is late and says that he does not have to continue if he does not wish but persuaded him by speaking of his father and father’s father doing the same journey and that his faith will be unharmed. Goodman is convinced
He is believing them to be people of his village, both good and bad. I believe that it is conscious. His conscious is telling showing him the good and the bad people, comparing the two, giving him a guilty conscious to want to be anything else. He hears Faith scream out, followed by a pink ribbon falling from the sky and onto a branch. He says that his Faith is gone and that there is no reason why he should not continue on with the journey. When Goodman shows up the Devils meeting, there are a lot of familiar faces. There are good and bad people standing around, and faith is there as well. He screams to resist the temptation and everything and everyone vanishes and he is in another location as well. Hawthorne leaves us to believe that it is all a dream. Goodman sets out on a spiritual journey to overcome his fears and to find his spiritualism rather it be to stay with Christianity or to find another road. Goodman is given a lot of trials and tribulations from both, God and the Devil. At the end of the story Goodman wakes up and finds his religion and faith is still with God which makes everything else seize to