Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Sin in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB
blaze in preteen Goodman Brown Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an excellent improvident story from the 1800s. In this short story Hawthornes main character, Goodman Brown, goes out into the woodwind with the devil and is tempted by the devil each step of the way. In Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne uses characters who are leaders of their community and symbolistic settings to show that despite how prominent a person is he or she is fitted of evil under the remediate conditions. Through the use of community leaders, Hawthorne shows that there is evil in everyone. As Goodman Brown heads into the woods with the prince of darkness, he encounters several of his community leaders creating evil. First, he and Satan encounter Goody Cloyse, Goodmans spiritual adviser and former catechism teacher. afterwards Goodman goes off among the trees, the devil and Goody have a converse. Instantly, Goody recognizes him as the devil. Then Satan says, Then Goody Cloyse know s her old friend?1 The conversation later reveals Goody is a witch and is on her way to the opprobrious Sabbath. Shortly afterwards, as Goodman was resting, deacon Gookin, Goodmans other spiritual advisor, walks by with a minister. He and the minister are talking about missing a church ordination dinner to attend the satanic gathering. The deacon says, also several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashion know almost as much deviltry as the best of us, (311). The whole time Goodman is on the trail, he is committing sin. Every step of the way, he is forsaking his god. He easily succumbs to sin as the lord of the underworld coaxes him. At the meeting, when a parting screamed out, Bring forth the converts(315), Goodman steps forward, accepting evil. Under the right settings, anybody is capable of evil. Using the right settings, Hawthorne creates symbolistic environments to make so called heavenly characters turn to evil. In the village of Salem, the villagers lo ok up to Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse as extremely spiritual people. The village of Salem is symbolistically any town or church, and Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse are the sinless leaders of the church. Along the path in the woods, Goodman Brown watches the deacon and Goody committing sins and not grieving over their sins.
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