Religious Themes And Religion In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Not all that Glitters is Gold !n Nathaniel Hawthorne short story "Young Goodman Brown,” The author describes objects and events as source of further readers’ effects under his own religious point of view. However, the well known fact that the religion has a multitude of faces, a adversity of interests, and evil mysteries, causes more than one interpretation analyzing Young Goodman Brown’s settings. The protagonist is a pious man, whose mind is full of dogmas from the dominant religions of 1800s in the Christian world, Catholic Apostolic Roman and Catholic Orthodox, also, Catholic Apostolic but not Romans or Protestants. Brown leaves his wife Faith at home and starts a journey to explore the other side, the dark side, of his

As a result, for unwary people every sound is not only perfect to follow, but also ideal to explore and desire. Goodman’s quotes denote his ocupation in deep experimentation of evil spirits. "There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown, to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him, as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!" (9) This atmosphere of contemplation and assumption that the evil is a natural part of human religious journey give the connotation that every human has the capacity to interact to the dark side of religious systems and unscrupulously they absorb the misconceptions disseminated. Finally, the cosmic conflict about adoration’s day, Sabbath-day, managed into the story of Goodman deluded to an overwhelming foot note: “Sabbath-day” is Sunday is an accurate assault. Hawthorne states that Goodman realized that Salem is a place where witches read in Sabbath day. “Oh his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbath-day and Lecture-day!” (344) undoubtedly, discredit goes to the puritan people who came from England looking for freedom to keep their religious beliefs