Young goodman brown

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Young Goodman Brown is a puritan minister who followed the ways of the Puritan religion. After his encounter with the devil he saw how the world really turned, which serverly destroyed his life. By this Brown went from a state of innocence (not knowing), to a state of experience (Knowing).

The story begins with Brown leaving on a journey. Faith, Brown's wife begged him not to go on an "errand", Brown says his "his love and my faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee." As Stear explains: "When he says, "love" and his "Faith" he is talking to his wife but he is also talking to "faith" in god". When brown went to meet the so-called person in the woods, the traveler asked him why he was late. Brown replied with "faith kept me behind". Stear also explains: "this has a double meaning. Not only his wife named Faith has left him behind, but his faith in god slowed him down also".( )

As Brown is walking in the woods, the traveler with him, who holds a cane that resembles a great black snake, talked to Brown about his family. The man was trying to convince Brown that everyone is devilish. He does this by telling Brown how his grandfather lashed a Quaker woman, and set fire to and Ind

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ian village. Tritt explains here: "the traveler was trying to get Brown join his devilish acts". Brown was very skeptical about him and would not believe what he is saying, but something happened that changed Browns hole view of life.

As Brown is walking in the woods, the traveler with him, who holds a cane that resembles a great black snake, talked to Brown about his family. The man was trying to convince Brown that everyone is devilish. He does this by telling Brown how his grandfather lashed a Quaker woman, and set fire to and Indian village. Tritt explains here: "the traveler was trying to get Brown join his devilish acts". Brown was very skeptical about him and would not believe what he is saying, but something happened that changed Browns hole view of life.

What Brown was to see next, changed his life forever, he instantly became knowledgeable. What he heard was a voice he believed to be Faith's, but when he called her name he only got his voice echoed back at him through the forest. At this time Brown sees a pink ribbon, Brown grabs it and says, "my Faith is gone! There is no good on earth and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is the world given (109)". Tritt explain: "The puritans only wore plain colors like black and white and for Brown to see a color of pink, it just was like a devilish thing. Brown foreshadowed the future in his mind (112)."

Young Goodman Brown hears voices, he notices that one of the voices was the Deacon's. He was talking about some type of communion. Brown was eager to see what he was talking about because the Deacon was in the woods "where no church has ever gathered"(109).

Brown comes upon the ceremony, which is set up like a Puritan temple. The altar was a rock in the middle of the congregation and there were four trees surrounding the congregation with their tops on fire. Brown starts to take notice of the faces that he sees in the service, he recognizes all but doesn't see Faith and "hope came to his heart". In Capp's statement:

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