Week 6 Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne

After reading the introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne I was interested to pick up on the suttle symbols he leaves throughout his story. I think this period of the puritans gave so many authors an outlet for writing. Young Goodman Brown from what we know about him is a young man who has always followed his elders and has done what he has told. He is newly married to a woman named Faith who he will see again throughout his journey to complete an errand. It is interesting to see how quickly Goodman Brown is tempted by the devil for his faith. Once he is able to see the many people he looked up to he noticed that he was not living a life of faith that he had been professing. He had looked at others faith and through that did not have to expore his relationship with God for himself. Everything and everyone he sees is dark and ugly looking and not what he would have been expecting. After realzing the life he had thought he had been living he began to think. Although he did not choose to follow the devil he did nothing for his own life to have a relationship with God. I think it was the end of his belief when he saw his wife and he told her to "Look up to Heaven and resist the Wicked One". From then on he lived a life away from the devil but away from God as well. It is sad to see that he decided to not let God help him in his sorrow that was enduring. At the end it mentions the fact that he might of been dreaming the wild dream of the witch meeting. I would like to think it was because there are always going to be times when you see yourself and others turning away from God. In doing that though it is nice to know that you can always turn back to God and he will accept you just as you are.