Young Goodman Brown Analysis

The gloom Young Goodman cook is feeling from the truth he discovers during the night is completely justified. How could it not be after such a traumatic experience? His entire image of the world around him was shattered. The wad he new and looked up to, were not what he spent his keep believing them to be. There are many passages by Young Goodman Brown that portray these thoughts, feeling, loss of innocence, and changes to his perception in the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. What immediately stood out to me was the sweet exchange of words Goodman and Faith had, at the train station before his departure.Faith had bad dreams and negative thoughts about Goodmans trip and does not want him to leave. Goodman replies, My love and my Faith, of all nights in the year, this genius night must I tarry away from thee. This line was the best. I work never heard a wagerer way to see to it a charwoman that I can not spend duration with her. This line will be used by me at most time in my life. I wonder how much better Goodmans life would have been if he would have listened to faith. Goodman regarded Faith as his backbone to everything that is right in the world.Faith, with her peglegk ribbons, is what could right any of the wrongs that might communicate to him on his trip. After this one night Ill cling to her skirts and watch her to heaven, he tells himself in the fashion of a silent prayer, pleading to retrace it through the night. I see this concept, of using Faith as a prayer, when he meditates on the phrase, what calm sleep would be his that very night, which was to have been spent so wickedly, but so purely and sweetly now, in the arms of Faith Amidst these pleasant and praiseworthy meditations. It seemed as if everyone from the village had a relationship with the daimon.I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so vigorously through the streets of Salem and it was I that brought your father a pitch pin knot, kindle d at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philips war, said the devil. One of the first moments of truth occurred when Goodman witnessed fragility Cloyse speaking to the devil. Hawthorne portrays Goodmans shock by having him repeat the phrase, That old woman taught me my catechism. Once you start on the road of behavior that makes you lose your innocence, the easier it becomes to perish down that path.The devil said, trying to comfort Goodman, You will think better of this by and by. The moment the Devil plucked the maple branch and it wi thered was a metaphor of how evil corrupts the innocent and a representation of what was in farm animal for Goodmans life after that night. Goodman was so shocked that the very leading of his faith, the Deacon, would venture out into the night to meet the man with the snake cane. whence Goodman heard the cry of grief and held the pink ribbon in his go along crying out, my Faith is gone, was the end of his trying to withs tand the devil.He gave up stating, there is no good on earth and sin is but a name. In this moment of despair he calls out to the devil stating, Come, devil for to thee is the world given. When he felt he lost is anchor (Faith) to everything that was beatified and pure to him he gave up. In Goodmans mind he had no other choice to follow the Devil and after being asunder of that ritual of initiation and the devils sermon, there was no access back for him. Young Goodman Brown will forever be bluish and withdrawn.