Symbols and Analysis within Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

offspring Goodman brownish by Nathaniel Hawthorne provides historical, societal, religious, scientific and biographical contexts. The story is set in the period of the Salem witch Trials in Puritan New England. The story describes Browns journey into the depths of the woodwind instrument, where he believes that he sees many of the members of his community, including his wife Faith, attending a satanic ceremony. The narrator implies that Brown may be sleeping, but either way the experience was real. It stirred Brown very frequently. The story is often read as Hawthornes reprimand of Puritan ideology, as it proposes that Puritan doctrine could strain so much doubt that believers were doomed to see evil-whether or not it truly existed-in themselves and specially in others. Within the short story of Young Goodman Brown, unmatched mass find evidence that collectiveness in communal bread and butter would be considered virtuous and that individualism would be considered unmoral in society. Eventually it becomes clear that a communalist life style is a necessary evil. Through Goodman Browns breakthrough of the corruptibility that results from Puritan societys emphasis on public morality, one can piece together the idea that man is a kindly being and must be included in some sign of community whether the community itself is moral or unmoral. When Brown is approached by another(prenominal) pass awayer with a large staff that looks like a serpent the dickenss staff was encircled by a carven serpent. This comes from the biblical symbol of the serpent as an evil demon. In the confine of Genesis, the serpent tempts Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the forbidden head which defied Gods will. When the devil tells Brown to use the staff travel quicker, Brown takes his advice, just as Eve, he is ... ...and he is upset when the devil tells him that this was not the case. He himself is ashamed to be seen walking in the forest and hides when Goody Cloys e, the minister, and Deacon Gookin pass. The forest is characterized as devilish, frightening, and dark, and Goodman Brown is comfortable in it only after he has given in to evil.Works CitedFolsom, crowd K. Mans Accidents and Gods Purposes. Multiplicity in Hawthornes Fiction. New Haven College and University Press 1963.Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown. Literature A take Anthology. Ed. Gwynn, R.S.. Third Edition. New York Longman Publishers 2007. 198-209. Paey, Stephanie. Symbolism and Human Nature in Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown. Yahoo Contributor Network. Apr 8, 2006. http//www.associatedcontent.com/article/27166/symbolism_and_human_nature_in_nathaniel.html