Young Goodman Brown: Puritan Corruption, Fear and Innocence

In the 17th century Puritan was divided into separatists and nonseparators, and Separatist Puritan established the ideal Christian community. The village of Salem is recovering from the witch road scandal, but the other Puritan community is still involved in magic. Brown did not notice how his community was involved in magic. But Brown knows the events of Salem and has great curiosity about learning magic.

"Young Goodman Brown" is full of fable about Puritan 's religion. The name of the character of "Young Goodman Brown" is the deepest example of parable stories affected by Puritanism. The name of the hero's Goodman Brown is not just a name. For example, the name "Goodman Brown" depicts this role as a kind moral character. Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, has a name that will help to explain the collapse of Goodman Brown. After seeing the faith in the forest, Goodman Brown cried out that "my faith has disappeared" (323). His wife, faith disappeared with his spiritual beliefs. We first saw that Goodman Brown is a moral Puritan.

Puritan man, when young Goodman Brown crossed the forest, he highlighted the young Goodman Brown's potential (potential significance). During his trip, young Goodman Brown encountered a man, and eventually greeted a snake staff member. Coincidentally, Young Goodman Brown met some people he knew from society. When drawing a man who used a snake as an employee as a devil, the young Goodman Brown noticed that many people around him are sinners. This led Young Goodman Brown to question decent people around him. This shows how Nathanial Hawthorne uses a hidden dark image as the potential of Young Goodman Brown.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is about a lot of fables. "Young Goodman Brown" is a moral story that is conveyed through the corruption of religious leaders. In "Goodman Brown", Goodman Brown is a priest of Puritan who became proud to hinder the relationship with the community after seeing the devil, and he got him in his own community Had made. Live an exile. "Young Goodman Brown" began with asking Brown's wife Fess to keep on "chores". Goodman Brown told her, "My love and my faith ... I must stay away from you tonight." (DiYanni 273) When he said his "love" and his "belief", he was talking with his wife, but he was also talking about his "beliefs" to God. He is adventurously entering the woods to meet the devil, and by doing so he and his wife left a doubtless belief in God. He decided to "follow her with a skirt and follow her up."