Loss Of Faith In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

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“Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a short story about that a Goodman Brown who believed in Christ at first, and then then he lost all his faith in people around him and do not trust anyone else. In the story, first of all, he decided to attend the Sabbath, even though his wife's persuasion. In the forest, he saw many bad behavior of noble people. To his surprise, he found that his wife Faith appears. After returning home, he became desperate and do not believe anything, anyone. The whole story on Mr. Brown's experience in the forest. At first, Goodman Brown was a promising person because he has a strong faith in Christ. He had a pure, beautiful wife. Everyone think his life was so wonderful. However, every things would lost after he came back from the forest. He walked down into the forest, he met an old man who is actually the devil incarnate. The old man looks a …show more content…

Goody Cloyse turned out to be a witch. Brown realizes from their conversation that a meeting (a Black Mass) will take place that night in the forest. In the road, they also met Goody Cloyse,who is Brown's childhood religious teacher, she obviously knew the devil. Goody Cloyse turned out to be a witch. Brown realizes from their conversation that a meeting (a Black Mass) will take place that night in the forest. When he found himself filled with doubts and his beliefs of good and evil, just the thought of his wife, Faith, supporting him. Brown began to pray when he hears Faith's voice, and soon found that she was about to launch into the devil's party. Brown scream confidence to resist the devil, but immediately found himself alone in the forest. The next morning he returned to town, He never finds out whether he dreamed his experience in the forest or if it really took place, but since then, Brown was a lonely, do not trust the people, rejected his wife and his

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