"Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman says to his "love and Faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee"(1207). When he says his "love" and his "Faith, he is talking to his wife, but he is also talking to his "faith" in God. He is going to the woods to meet with the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith in God with his wife. He says that he will "cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven". This is an example of his excessive pride because he feels that that he can sin and meet with Devil because of this promise he made to himself. There is an irony to this promise because when Goodman comes back at dawn, he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before.

During the first part of his journey we can see his pride in himself and hoe

On the ceremony Brown starts to look into faces and realizes that there is no Faith among them; and "hope come into his heart" (1213). This is the first time when mention of Hope appears in the story, and it's because this is a turning point for Goodman Brown. He hoped that, as Faith is not here, he wouldn't have to live alone in his community of heathens. But he doesn't realize that he is already a part of it. After the ceremony he finds himself face to face with Faith. He yells "Faith! Faith! Look up to Heaven and resist the wicked one!"(1214). At this ceremony ends and Brown finds himself alone, which makes him to believe that he is also alone in his faith. Brown comes back to town and feels like outsider in there. He feels and even though he was at the Devil's service, he still better than everyone else because of his pride. He thinks he can push his own faults on others and look down at them rather then look at himself and solve his own faults in himself.

Goodman Brown was devastated by the discovery that the potential of the evil is in everybody. The rest of his life if destroyed because of is inability to face the truth and live with it. His life end alone because he was never able to

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