Young Goodman Brown

From the start our good man abandons his faith and enlists himself into a battle lost. His journey, long and winding, leads him off the path off righteousness and into the hands of evil. Along the way every feeble attempt to repent fails under the heavy influence of the night. In his struggle with internal morality the setting Hawthorne created suffocates Goodman’s sense of faith and connection to the good will of others.

Goodman embarks on his mission at sunset. He symbolically kisses his Faith good bye and under false justification for his endeavor follows what Hawthorne describes as, “a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.” It bestows the impression that Goodman is drawn into the forest and sealed into his fate. The path in this way represents his dynamic state through out the night. The path winds but grows ever wider toward the end. Much like he changes along the way but every attempt to

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Approximate Word count = 725
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)