Young Goodman Brown6

A detailed Summary of Young Goodman Brown6

"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a moralizing story. Hawthorne

shows us the great importance of our faith in God, our family and friends, and at length ourselves.

The plight of Goodman Brown indicates that without our "faith" we are unable to live life to the

fullest possible extent. Faith is our key to happiness.

"Young Goodman Brown" begins with Goodman Brown about to depart for an "errand"

that will take the evening. Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to go, the feeling she has is not a

good one. Goodman Brown says to his "love and Faith", "this one night I must tarry away from

thee." When he says his "love" and "Faith", he is talking to his wife, but he is also speaking of his

faith in God. It is ultimately revealed that this so-called "errand" Brown is on is to encounter the

Devil. By doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith in God back in Salem along with his loving

wife. He resolves that he will "cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven." This shows how

confident he is, that no matter what occurs on this night everything will be fine. The irony to this

promise is that when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn, he can no longer look at his wife, or

"Young Goodman Brown" ends with Brown returning to Salem at early dawn and looking

disrupting the happiness in Goodman Brown's life.

left his faith behind, unable to overcome the terrible consequences of his journey and thus losing

planted the seed of doubt in his mind which consequently cut him off from his fellow man and left

Christians.") The leader then dips his hand in the rock to draw a liquid from it and "to lay the

wonderful life he leads. "What a calm sleep would be his...in the arms of Faith!" Once again the

there is "no good on earth." Young Goodman Brown in this scene is easily manipulated by the

Approximate Word count = 1568
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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