named Young Goodman Brown. He walks with the Devil in the woods,

while walking with him. He finds out that his whole town has been living in

darkness, and that truth makes him think. Young Goodman has a revelation

that evil is the nature of man kind. In "Young Goodman Brown", Nathaniel

Hawthorne uses symbols to show that evil is hidden in any society. The

author uses the woods, the pink ribbons, and the name Faith as symbols for

Goodman Brown's discovery that evil is the nature of mankind.

Hawthorne uses the woods to create a gloomy, scary, and dark setting.

The woods create a picture of darkness and evil where Goodman walk

through. Darker gloomier woods, the more enlightened Goodma

He finds in the trees the pink ribbons that Faith had in her hair before. There

is going to happen. He uses the woods, the pink ribbons, and the name Faith.

but his revelation shows him wrong. Is evil is the nature of mankind? No

sees Deacon Gookin and finds that he also has been living a dark life with the

the end. He found out the everyone in the town was in contact with the

When Young Goodman walks in the woods and finds the people from town.

everyone else. It is a disguise to cover evil. "Faith still peeping after him,

one knows. Yet one has a freedom to choose one's path in life, whether is

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Approximate Word count = 530
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)