Faith And Symbolism In Bruce Lee's Young Goodman Brown

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil

Goodman Brown shows he has a strong faith before he enters the forest and at times during his journey to the black mass. Hawthorne uses the name of Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, as a symbol of Goodman Brown's own faith throughout the story. The description of Goodman Brown’s wife can portray Goodman’s own faith when he says, "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap" (140). Nathaniel Hawthorne claims that Faith is pure, innocent, and just simply virtuous, just like Goodman Brown’s own faith. Additionally, Mr. Brown’s calming and reassuring responses to his wife shows that his faith is strong and is not easily diminished when he says, “Amen!' Cried

In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the negative effects of lying with Brown and his relationship with his wife, Faith. The relationship between Brown and Faith seems loving, as the story begins with Faith blessing him and Brown worrying about her before departing on his meeting with the devil. However, their dishonesty to each other leads to a conclusive end to their loving relationship when Brown comes back from his journey. Another broken relationship is in “The Insufficiency of Honesty”, in which Stephen Carter presents an example about an unfaithful man confessing to his wife that he has cheated on her for the past thirty-five years. The two examples are relationships that shatters, in which Brown stops loving Faith,

In the allegorical short story entitled “Young Goodman Brown”, author Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the irony of words and their connotations to express his ideas. The most evident example of this word inference is the used of “Faith” as the name of Young Goodman Brown’s wife. Religiously, faith can be defined as “the belief and trust in God and in the doctrines expressed in the scriptures or other sacred works” (Merriam-Webster). Hawthorne uses the relationship between Brown and his wife to parallel that with his own personal faith.

Sir Winston Churchill, a British politician from 1800’s says “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Throughout my few years of living, I have learned that everybody is going to fail at something at least once. It is up to you to take all of your failures and turn them into success. It’s not going to only take one day but everyone is destined to be successful.

All my life I have been bombarded with unrealistic and cliche messages. Some of my teacher’s personal favorites included “You can do anything as long as you put your mind to it” or “With hard work anything is possible.” While it may be true that hard work is the key to success, hard work alone will not get you where you want to be.

In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” the author Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the fragility of humans when it comes to their morality. Goodman Brown goes on a journey through the forest with the devil to watch the witches’ ritual and observes the evil in the Puritan society. He loses his faith as he sees the people he respects the most participating in the sinful ritual. Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes setting, and symbolism in his short story “Young Goodman Brown,” to show how a person’s perspective can change by showing the hypocritical nature of the Puritan society

No matter what obstacles stand in your way, keep moving forward and proceed to the finish line.

"The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think." This is one of Misty Copeland’s famous quotes that I really love. It inspires me and tells me that the path to success isn’t going to be easy, you’ll have to work and hit a few bumps to get to your goal.

First, Hawthorne uses Faith to represent young Goodman Brown’s faith in God. When Young Goodman Brown prepares to leave on his journey, Faith tries to warn him not to go on his set course and to stay with her (Hawthorne 261-262). By leaving her, the author symbolizes that Brown is consciously deciding to walk away from God, which ultimately leads him down the wrong path.

Having the mind and determination to become successful isn’t an easy task. Success isn’t considered a gift, it should be a hard task to achieve and it matters how it is accomplished. Success

I’m not saying that I know all that there is to know about success, because I don’t. However, I know that if you work really hard at something that you love, success will, some day, come your way. It may be during the biggest, most crucial moment of your life, or it may just be on a Saturday, at “practice” with some

Don't listen to the voices around you saying that you can't do it or that you'll never achieve what you want to achieve. And don't let external factors get in the way of you doing your own thing as well!

Throughout my experience I have come up with some encouraging quotes that I love sharing with those who are just starting out. If you are just beginning on your journey towards success, remember these during times of discouragement: