young goodman brown

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is told through the eyes of a religious leader. In “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown is a puritan minister who lets his pride in himself interfere with his relationship with other people. Then after he meets the devil this causes him to live the rest of his life alone.
“Young Goodman Brown” begins when Goodman Brown says to his “love and (my) Faith,” (189) that “this one night I must tarry away from thee.” (189). When he says his “love” and his “faith,”(189) he is talking to his wife, but he is also talking about his “faith” to God. He is heading out into the woods to meet with the devil, and by doing so he leaves his faith in God behind. As he is leaving he says that he will “ cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.” (189). There is irony in this promise because when he returns home he cannot look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
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