Young Goodman Brown

Central Character:

The story’s central character is Young Goodman Brown. Young Goodman Brown is about a character and his faith in himself, his wife and his community.

Background:

Young Goodman Brown must travel into the forest at night and return before sunrise. At first this trip is not explained, but as you read on you realize this trip is about resisting the temptations of evil and the devil. Young Goodman Brown is so sure of his faith in the beginning of his journey.
Later in the story he runs into someone presumably evil. He does very well at resisting this evil person until they run into his childhood catechism teacher. Seeing that his teacher has turned to evil ways gave him h...