Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about a guy who goes on a walk. Or so we think. At the beginning of the story Young Goodman Brown has a lot of faith and beliefs. But as he continues his walk strange things begin to happen. He finds out that everyone who he thought he knew were not what they seemed. By the end of his walk Young Goodman Brown lost all his faith.
Hawthorne communicates this theme by using plot, symbolism, and characterization.
In the story Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne uses symbolism in two different ways. One way is Young Goodman Brown's wife. Her name is Faith but that could also represent the faith or belief of him to not go on that walk. another way the author uses symbolism is when he keeps repeating that the wife Faith has her hair ribbon but by the end of the story she doesn't have the ribbon anymore. This could also be a way to show us another way faith was lost.
Characterization is also used because at the beginning of the story Young Goodman Brown has a lot of faith and has many beliefs. But, towards the end of the end of the story Young Goodman Brown lost all faith when he found out that the government and the leaders of the church were in the forest with the devil.
He also lost faith when he found out his wife was also a liar.
The way Hawthorne uses the plot is really interesting. At the beginning we are to believe that the story is just about a guy who goes on a walk at night.
But, as the story goes on it grows an ominous tone.
It makes the story take a turn from a guy who goes on a walk at night to a guy who lost faith in one dreary night.
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