Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

progeny Goodman Brown by Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that isthick with allegory.Young Goodman Brown is a moral story, which is told through theperversion of a religious leader. In Young Goodman Brown, GoodmanBrown is a Puritan minister who lets his luxuriant pride in himselfinterfere with his relations with the community after he meets withthe devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his owncommunity.Young Goodman Brown begins when Faith, Browns wife, asks him non togo on an errand. Goodman Brown says to his love and (my) Faiththat this one night I must tarry away from thee. When he says hislove and his Faith, he is talking to his wife, but he is alsotalking to his faith to god. He is venturing into the woods to meetwith the tantalise, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith inGod with his wife. He resolves that he will cling to her skirts andfollow her to Heaven. This is an example of the excessive pridebec ause he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because ofthis look for that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony tothis promise because when Goodman Brown comes tolerate at dawn he can no durable look at his wife with the same faith he had before.When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that thereason he was late was because Faith kept me back awhile. Thisstatement has a double meaning because his wife physically preventedhim from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faithto God psychologically slow his meeting with the devil.The Devil had with him a lag that bore the likeness of a greatblack snake. The staff which looked like a snake is a reference tothe snake in the story of Adam and even. The snake led Adam and Eve totheir destruction by leading them to the Tree of Knowledge. The Adamand Eve story is similar to Goodman Brown in that they are bothseeking unfathomable amounts of knowledge. Once Adam and Eve ate fromthe Tree of Knowledge they were expelled from their paradise. TheDevils staff eventually leads Goodman Brown to the Devils ceremonywhich destroys Goodman Browns faith in his fellow man, thereforeexpelling him from his utopia.Goodman Brown almost immediately declares that he kept his meetingwith the Devil and no longer wishes to continue on his errand with theDevil. He says that he comes from a race of honest men and good

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