Andrew Goodman

story called, “Young Goodman Brown” about a man’s spiritual journey in Puritan America. A hundred and fifty-six years later Bret Easton Ellis wrote, “American Psycho” once more focusing a man’s journey, although less about his spirit and more of his psychological problems during the 1980s. Although, on the surface, these two stories do not seem similar they do share a lot of similarities, almost to the point where American Psycho could be seen as a newer version of Young Goodman Brown, just with…

wife of Young Goodman Brown is named “Faith” for a reason. It gives the reader a clue that Faith was named to represent the faith of Young Goodman Brown; such as the faith in this own life or the faith in god. For example when it states “Come, Goodman Brown, cried his fellow-traveler; this is a dull pace for the beginning of the journey. Take my staff, if you are soon weary” and “We are but a little way in the forest yet.” This quotes shows that the devil tested the faith of Young Goodman Brown,…

A breeze fluttered Perceval’s hair as he gazed in desolation at the closed drawbridge on the other side of the moat. What was he to do now? He needed that Grail to heal not only the Fisher King, but also his ill mother. Perceval pulled on the reins of his horse and brought it about-face towards the ominous forest behind him. He saw no point in raving like a madman at the deserted castle, and so, the only option Perceval saw left was to venture into the woods to look for someone who could tell…

In Ambivalence in “Young Goodman Brown”, Walter J. Paulits argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown expresses more ambivalence rather than ambiguity over the decisions of Goodman Brown. Ambivalence is seen much more prominent throughout the short story because it is filled with mixed feelings and contradictory ideas. Goodman Brown is an example of how choices come with consequences, good or bad. Goodman Brown is introduced as a good and happy man, married to his wife, Faith.…

Young Goodman Brown has the potential for change, but requires an outside force such as outside influence to initiate his transformation from faith in Christianity, to Satanism. Young Goodman Brown’s potential for this transformation is evident in how he is described has having “wickedness in his heart”. “At the word, Goodman Brown stepped forth from the shadows of the trees and approached the congregation, with whom he felt a loathful brotherhood by the sympathy of all that's wicked in his…

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne perplexed my mind continuously throughout the story due to its complexity but I slowly began to develop my own interpretation of events as I read the text several times. In the beginning, a young man, Goodman Brown, is with his wife Faith, a character who symbolizes his Christian religion, and they are saying their goodbyes. Brown appears to be saddened by leaving his wife but makes his way to a forest that night to go on an “errand” as he states…

In “Young Goodman Brown,” the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, expresses that “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (Hawthorne 8). The theme, the loss of innocence, focuses on Goodman Brown and the experiences he undergoes which inevitably changes his life for the worse. Foreshadowing is portrayed several times as the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, states his many examples as the story continues. The author’s style focuses mainly on the…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, the author creates Goodman Brown as an individual who is hunted by his own conscious and as someone who have committed a grave sin by meeting with the devil in the forest and where he participated in meeting of witches and interestingly these taking place in his dreams. In young Goodman Brown, it is positively certain that he is isolating himself due to his beliefs from his community which causes him to feel pain. It is, also, certain Hawthorne's…

The story A Goodman Is Hard to Find and Young Goodman Brown both illustrate a lack of honesty that exist in the world we currently live in. The stories depict a world where deceitfulness is abundant. Where evil is lurking ultimately revealing itself and that the good in the world is like a rare gem, rarely sparkling and showing its existence. Both stories illustrate characters are battling their own inner evil demons and struggling with their desired self-perception. In A Goodman Is Hard to…

we leave the surface of what is around us, and enter the abyss wandering through the depths and mazes of our beings into the darkness of the world before us. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, a young man sets out away from his faith into the paths of the forest where darkness lies: Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street of Salem village; but his head turned back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife… “Dearest heart,”…