The Sin Within Us All. Sin Is Everywhere Yet Nowhere At

He goes anyway. This trip will lead to the guilt that Goodman Brown will feel for the rest of his life. Goodman Brown goes into the forest to meet a man which we later find out is the devil. He was late because his wife had kept him in town. "You are late Goodman Brown." (p.383) He replies "Faith kept me back" (p.383), which is ironic because his wife Faith really kept him back that day, but his religious faith also kept him from confronting the devil previously. Goodman Brown follows the man or devil through the forest which leads to an open field. This is presumed to resemble The Garden of Eden. He sees the whole town there including his wife worshiping the devil. On his return to the town, Goodman Brown cannot look at anyone. The life that he knew before this journey was over and would never be the same. He didn't go to church or talk to barely anyone because of his guilt for going to worship the devil. When he died, "there was no hopeful verse upon his tombstone for his dying hour was gloom" (p. 391) This is like the "The Minister's Black Veil" showing that someone must live and breathe everyday knowing of the sin that they have committed.

The story "Young Goodman Brown" takes place in Salem, during the famous witch trials. At the beginning of the story, Goodman Brown is leaving to take an unknown trip. Faith begs him not to leave, for the fact that she gets scared while being alone. Nevertheless, she's afraid her mind might wander to a dark and evil side that she cannot control. Goodman Brown tells her that if she remains faithful to prayer, no evil will come to trouble her. He then leaves Faiths side and is on his way. Walking down a dark road, Goodman Brown lets his own mind travel to a dark place, scared that something is behind the trees and the devil is watching over him. Walking through

Goodman Brown fell asleep in the forest and was dreaming. I believe he was dreaming and that all that all the stories of witches, curses, and religion played a part in his dream. Salem, Massachusetts is well known for the Salem Witch Trials. In the text it says that Brown fell asleep so it is most likely that he dreamt this whole situation. In his dream, religious figures Deacon Gookin and the minister were going to the ceremony. At the ceremony, he saw everyone he knew was turning evil, but decided to stay with God for Faith. If Deacon Gookin, the minister, and Faith were for God before he left into the forest why would they change their religious views at the

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne introduces Goodman Brown, who doubts himself and reiterates his false confidence to himself repeatedly. His struggle between the evil temptations, the devil, and the proper church abiding life, is a struggle he does not think he can handle. This story is about a man who challenges his faith in himself and in the community in which he resides. Goodman Brown must venture on a journey into the local forest, refuse the temptations of the devil, and return to the village before the sunrise.

These two wonderfully written short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” and The Minister’s Black Veil”, both have great ways of bringing up the topic of secret sin. They show the readers two different ways to handle the situation. Both main characters in these short stories handle their own secret sin in a different manner. Goodman Brown takes his situation and adds negativity onto himself by hiding his sin, meanwhile Reverend Hooper admits to his mistakes and reveals to all of his peers that he has sinned and he now has nothing to hide from. These short stories are great examples to prove there is a positive way and negative way to handle not only the situation the two men were in, but in all difficult situations in life.

“Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die. ”(Genesis 2:15-17) Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story set in Salem, Massachusetts. The story centers on Goodman Brown a man who is setting off on a journey that leads him to discover the evils within himself and those close to him like his wife Faith.

Many people nowadays base their expectations on what they see and ignore the reality that everyone is not as perfect as they seem to be. In the short allegorical story Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the transformation of character and belief as time passes by. Young Goodman Brown’s innocent character is gone when his loss of faith in humanity causes him to take a journey in the woods and become tempted by the Devil. As a result, he doubts the people around him and distances himself from them because he loses respect for them as he only sees their depravities.

In the story he is corrupted by the devil, but it is never determined on whether it was a reality or a dream. Goodman Brown lets the devil corrupt him during his journey in the story. “By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places—whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest—where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.” This is the moment when Goodman Brown did not stop seeing the evil in every one in the village. His wife, Faith really tries to persuade Goodman Brown to make his journey in the forest during daylight by stating to him the quote “prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed to-night” is the statement that Faith gives her husband about making the journey at night and Goodman Brown replies with “My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs to be done ‘twixt now and sunrise.”

Despite being a very religious man, it is interesting to see how Goodman Brown's faith is shaken. It is even more interesting to see how he has been blinded to evil as it appears as though he and his wife are the only two people within the village that have not been initiated into the village's evil sect. One can interpret Goodman Brown's forest journey as one of self-discovery.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was known, in his works, for providing stirring critiques of the Puritan norms that were so prominent during his time. As a writer, he was also willing to challenge the institutions that other people found sacred, and beyond that, he hoped to challenge perceptions of what it meant to live a normal life during that time. One of the primary themes of Puritanism is the concept of original sin, and Hawthorne seemed to have a preoccupation with this concept. In “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne uses different characters and different scenes to make important statements on the nature of Puritan life. Specifically, the two works are linked from a thematic perspective. They both focus on the ways in which the Puritan concept of sin can cause a soul-crushing brand of guilt that afflicts all parts of a person’s life.

He finds that all of the good people are participating in a frantic satanic ritual and god forsaken acts that forsake God himself. One of the key points in “Young Goodman Brown”, is the battle of whether or not Goodman Brown should remain good or joining the devil. The journey for Goodman Brown is very difficult, as he traverses through the woods at night, all while contemplating of the good things such as his wife Faith who he leaves behind. This internal conflict causes a destruction of the Young Goodman Brown and results in the creation of a completely different man.

     Goodman Brown is tempted by his fellow traveler, who is most definitely an advocate of the devil, or the devil in another form, to come deeper into the forest, but he refuses. Goodman Brown now sits and ponders whether or not to turn back. He hears the voices of the town’s deacon and minister, and they talk of he communion they will be attending. Upon hearing this, Goodman Brown cries out that he will stand strong against the devil. He then hears the confused sound of voices of the towns-people. This is the devil firmly urging Goodman Brown to give in to the evil force. Now the desperate man hears the scream of a woman and sees his wife’s pink hair ribbon in a tree and he is paralyzed by the effects of this. Crying out “My Faith is gone, there is no good on earth: and sin is but a name” he instantly sells himself to the devil.

The story of ?Young Goodman Brown? exemplifies the struggle of one man?s internal conflict of good and evil. The main character, Goodman Brown, leaves Salem village and his wife, Faith, to travel into the depths of the dark forest. The Young Goodman Brown will be aged with the knowledge he faces in this one night. Brown keeps his appointment with the devil in the forest, and he must choose to go back to his ?faith,? or explore the evils that the devil has to offer. Next, Brown is confronted with the virtuous people who live in his community, who will be attending the witch?s meeting with the devil. He has to decide if he will follow them along this

He was able to at least blindly acknowledge the new side to Goody Close, and the minister and the Deacon, but with the sight of her pink ribbon "after one stupefied moment" Young Goodman Brown cried "my Faith is gone" (190). On the outside he believes his wife too has fallen into the trap of the devil yet on the inside he has lost his own faith. "There is no good on earth…come, devil; for to thee is this world given" (190). To Goodman Brown his world is now over and with his faith in the world, in his society gone he succumbs to the evilness of the forest.

Young Goodman Brown has a journey to go to and this journey helps him discover the hidden evil and hypocrisy that characterizes every person from his town (Ryken 2012). Goodman Brown is a kind man to his town people and so he allows them to have his trust. He does not focus if the people could possibly have a different side of them. The only thing he receives is how the people act towards him. That could also make him believe that there are only good personalities from people when that is the only thing they show him. Which he should not allow giving his trust so easily without knowing how they really are. Brown had to see the truth about his town people in a difficult way. It made Brown upset because the whole time he thought they were good people. When the people gave Brown an unbelievable truth about themselves, Brown had understood something. He understood that people are not the person who they act around others. Young Goodman Brown was a very trustworthy man until he saw the people that he loved attending a satanic ceremony.