Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown
Perceptions of Faith in “Young Goodman Brown.” Throughout ones journey in life, our individual perceptions of faith in God, in mankind, and in ourselves, guide us along our path. The story of Young Goodman Brown is about a man and his faith in himself, his wife, and the community they reside in.
Young Goodman Brown is a man at a crossroads in his life. Newly married and already settled in his hometown of Salem. He must venture on a journey into the local forest refuse the temptations of the devil and return to the village before time. Ready to set out on his journey, he leaves his wife Faith behind. While they are together everything seems to be all right. It is when Young Goodman Brown sets off that the trouble soon begins.
The writer is already lost in a morass of his own ambiguity. Th...