Sin In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Hawthorne’s tale “Young Goodman Brown” draws the story of an exemplary Puritan who is tempted to sin by the devil. In Salem, a village recognized due to its hypocritical witch trials, and thus, demonstrating that sins exist hidden behind everyone’s “pure” life. Goodman’s sins start off when lying to Faith, his wife that represents pureness and light, leaving her alone while he gets into the woods. Then, ignoring his own sins hiding himself behind the trees whenever a “remarkable” Puritan figure of the village shows up in the dark and sinful woods. Led by the devil, Goodman Brown gathers up with sinners and people, who feign to undoubtedly follow what their God dictates, in a meeting where he is invited to be a sinner. This part of the tale shows how hypocritical people of his village were. However, the next day, it all appeared to be a dream, but he had lost his faith and devotion for his religion dying unhappy and miserable. It exists a sense of hypocrisy throughout the whole story and, in case the tale is true,

Indeed, no one is exempt of being invited to sin, even if you are the most devoted person or the least religious person. In the Goodman’s meeting in the woods, the highest ranks of the community and religion where exposed as sinners showing Goodman that the people he looks up and admires have done so non-pure things. As Goodman thinks on taking a decision on whether step back or continue with the ceremony, he unconsciously searches for a family advice, he sees his dad, inviting him to sin, while his mom tells him to go back and leave. Regardless, he keeps thinking that not everyone was meant to go against God’s willing as he doesn’t see Faith within the crowd. However, Faith manifests as being the other person invited to the ceremony and when Godman sees how the purest representative he knew was also tempted to sin, he lost the little hope he had left quitting his faith and living