Human Morality In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

In the short story, Young Goodman Brown, created by American writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, composed and formalized, in order to publicize symbolism to depict his viewpoint on human morality, known as the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior, can be easliy distinguished in the main character reffered to as Goodman Brown in the text. Hawthorne adopts a histrionic tone in his writing, displaying the events of the short story, influenced by his Puritan culture. Intially, Hawthorne uses symbolism in his text to depict his viewpoint on human morality by introducing characters mentioned who can be known as young Goodman Brown and his wife Faith. Brown and Faith are part of the Puritan society, who
The evil assembly is an important part of symbolism because it mirrors the actions that typically occur in a church setting except for the fact that it revolves around evil. The people of the evil assembly partake in rituals that they strictly follow and obey just like commoners of a church would. The evil assembly is simply a distortion of what's practiced in a christian riligion. For instance, when Hawthorne writes the quote, "Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again my children, to the communion of your race!"(4) this is just like a church in which the only happiness is one in which a person follows the path of God. Also, the hollow rock is a symbol of baptism. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses his short story Young Goodman Brown to depict his viewpoint and central understanding on human morality by using various forms of symbolism. Some of the multiple forms of symbolism include the characters, the woods, and the evil assembly. He manages to use a histrionic tone in his writing to exhort his main idea and to entertain the audience with an interesting short