Journey In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the reader is essentially taking a journey with Goodman Brown, who has left his faith behind and has begun a journey embarking on sin, which is where his life will ultimately be altered. The young man in the story has a wife named Faith, takes a rather peculiar journey at the darkest time of the night, and how in that journey loses his faith in all things. Goodman Browns journey is one to be discussed and one to be analyzed deeply, because his journey is unlike any other individual’s life altering experiences. Uniquely, Faith possesses a deeper meaning to this story. Faith is what has allowed Goodman Brown to stay away from sinful acts. Hawthorne states, “Faith kept me back a while”. This quote is fully describing how he has left part of his faith at home and has taken this journey through …show more content…

Brown, ends his peculiar journey but not before discovering the sin that lives within everyone. The author says, “But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting” (Hawthorne). The journey ends for Brown, but whether that journey was a dream or reality, one can only interpret and speculate seeing as how this journey became believable. Brown has now reunited with his wife Faith, but Faith is now greeting a totally different man. Goodman Brown saw a lot of sinful activities in the woods and it has brainwashed his mind to believing that all people are not to be trusted and that sin does exist in the heart of everyone. He cannot wrap his head around how one can be so full of faith but at the same time full of sin. As his life went on he was never able to fully gain his faith back and that just shows the power of experience and the power of faith. On his faithless journey he discovers something that he felt was wrong and unjust, which ultimately turned him off to the sight of his wife

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