Allegorical Message in Young Goodman Brown

Many early writers, who had a strong faith in their religion, wrote short stories for their fellow believers in order for them to live their life God’s way. In the early Puritan time, not living the righteous way meant the wrongdoers were sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace come judgement day. Above all other things, many different writings taught lessons to the people through the mistakes of the character. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, an allegorical message is used throughout the story to show the evils of the devil. This can be seen in Young Goodman Brown’s experience in dark, evil forest and Puritan the faith Brown was associated with.

Throughout the story we see Young Goodman Brown’s soul and faith tested by the devil. Brown starts off by leaving his wife “Faith” (this has allegorical meaning that will be discussed later) and heads to the forest. The forest, dark and evil, represented the deceit and darkn

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