Young Goodman Brown

We see Hawthorne using the Puritan association of trees and animals. There are two main characters in this short story, Faith and Young Goodman Brown. In writing his short stories or novels he based their depiction of sin on the fact that he feels like his father and grandfather committed great sins. “Young Goodman Brown” was a short story that dealt with the realisms of reality. The minister and the deacon were also corrupted and evil. ” Brown is said to be naïve because he goes into this evil forest even though his wife warned him of the danger that he was about to encounter. The pink ribbon that Faith wears is a symbol of sin and purities. There was a question asked by the author at the end of the story: was this story a dream or was it reality? Young Goodman Brown at the beginning of this story was a immature, good, loyal, trustworthy, and holy man. The ribbons provide a continuity between faith as an ideal of religious fidelity and as partner in a witches Sabbath. Faith’s ribbon is found in the evil forest and that’s when Faith is really seen as an unclear person. Hoffman writes that Faith is the forest. He lacked strength, courage, firmness, seriousness, and determination as Puritan should, but at a point in this story he became an adult and matured. That is why the witch meetings were held in the midst of it. The unfailing tact with which the experience is evoked subjectively in the more impressive concrete terms, is a subordinate proof of genius. They all were considered to be holy and people of God, but they were just the opposite.