Young Goodman Brown Faith Analysis

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts wrote the story “Young Goodman Brown” in 1835. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown” the author is showing the ideas of the story, which I think it is a good reason to read. The story is about Young Goodman Brown who decided to leave his wife behind in order to run an errand to an unknown forest. The story proved how Young Goodman Brown’s strong faith faded away as he made his journey. The author in this part mainly focused on the word faith which is mentioned throughout the story. One clear point of this is the name of Young Goodman Brown’s wife is “Faith”. The author proved that faith for most is within every human being. Overall, the story outlines good versus evil. It shows that once faith is engaged with doubt and hate, that it can change the person’s sight of others around them. Young Goodman Brown is showing both doubtful and innocent of evil believing the people around him are good but devil is to take over them. First Young Goodman
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Brown’s journey, the author uses symbols, “He the forest, which barley stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.” “The dreary road, gloomiest trees, narrow path creep,” represents the evil world that Young Goodman is starting to see. This represent the fact that Young good man Brown is aware of the journey he is about to make. Before reading the end of the story, I believed in how much Young Goodman was faithful enough to do this job. His strong believe in religion and praying showing in beginning of the story will later change from “We are a people of prayer, and good works to boo, and abide no such wickedness” to “There is no good on earth, and sin is but a name, come devil for to thee is this world given.” In my opinion whether or not one believes in god or not should have a good reason for his or her belief, because having faith is the first sign that will show everyone’s believe in a