Good Vs. Evil In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Good vs Evil Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story is a about determinant beliefs and an epic struggle between good and evil. Young Goodman Brown faces some real evils, but also has to face his own devilish side, his temptations, his anger and his family's history of cruelty. Hawthorne’s character, Young Goodman Brown, leaves the reader with the impression that "GOOD-MAN" is the focal character that symbolizes his will to be the noble person, in the battle between good and evil. Young Goodman Brown’s faith is tested, and only his walk through the woods will tell how he alters his beliefs and makes changes in his life insistently. Within the in short story, Goodman Brown encounters a journey that takes him through the realization between saints and sinners that later leads him into the woods to encounter a man posed as Satan and a journey back home that leads to delusional thoughts about his community.
In the puritan society the citizens were known as the chosen ones, they were a blessing from God! angels. As Christian’s they followed the strict rules as puritans. “We are a people of prayer, and good works, to boot, and abide no such wickedness” (Hawthorne 1291). In their society they could not accept themselves as evil people only as good and honest
The man in the woods himself told him that there were evil puritans in his society and he believed him. Before young Goodman Brown thought that he was living the puritan dream, by being Christian and following the guidelines as a good person: after he meant with the old man in the woods and changed his perspective on what a good puritan was. It was like he was in a puritan nightmare: he had hope that evil was all a dream. Walking back to his town he realized that it was reality and that nothing would go back to how it was. In this story, Hawthorne shows that human nature is a mixture of good and evil by creating an any man kind of