Young Goodman Brown
Mankind has a history of turning away from God and embracing evil. From the days of Cain to the present, there are a chain of men and women who have forsaken the promise of salvation in favor of what is called Satanism. In Hawthorne's story, Goodman Brown is faced with this challenge. He must endure the trials of Satan, learn troubling facts along the way and lose the one he loves. The choice to be …
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…go on with the journey. He argues with the devil that following him and being a servant of evil is wrong and he will return to his faith. This is quite symbolic of the age old inner struggle of good versus evil within everyday man. At this point of the story Goodman Brown sits on a tree stump and ponders his future. This is the instant where it seems that Brown falls asleep.
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