Young Goodman Brown - Eluprogram
Nathaniel HawthorneYoung Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown: Setting Time: Sunset Place: Salem village Weather conditions: Windy Social conditions: See notes on historicalcontext Mood: Darkness and gloom
Character: Faith Brown1. Characteristics: Sweet, cheerful, religious2. Developing character: She goes from good tocorrupted.
Character: Young Goodman Brown1. Characteristics: Confident, religious2. Developing character: He goes from beingconfident in his ability to choose good ratherthan evil, but once he stands before the Devil’saltar, he can no longer believe that good alwaysprevails. He becomes a profoundly disillusionedman who sees wickedness everywhere,including in those closest to him.
Character: The Devil1. Characteristics: Older man physicallyresembling Young Goodman Brown in someways2. Developing character: The reader comes to seehim as the darker side of Young GoodmanBrown’s character.
Character: Goody Cloyse, the Minister, Deacon Gookin1.Characteristics: Pious, virtuous at story’s beginning;hypocritical at story’s end2. Developing characters: All three of these characters serveas dramatic examples of the wickedness and hypocrisythat may hide in the souls of those who appear mostvirtuous. These three are distinguished from among thecrowd of townsfolk at the gathering because theyrepresent a standard of piety and godliness that isdestroyed for Brown by his experience. Both GoodyCloyse and Deacon Gookin were real people who wereinvolved in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Young Goodman Brown: Plot"Young Goodman Brown" opens with YoungGoodman Brown about to embark on anevening's journey. His young wife, Faith, fearfulfor some unknown reason, beseeches him todelay his journey. Goodman Brown, however,stresses that he has a task that must beaccomplished before sunrise, and so thenewlyweds reluctantly part. As he walks down thestreet, Goodman Brown chides himself forleaving Faith while he goes on his journey andresolves that, after this night, he will stay by theside of his good and pious wife. Pleased withhimself, Goodman Brown then hurries throughthe forest to accomplish some unknown task.
Plot (cont.)Deeper in the forest Goodman Brown spies anold man, who is actually the Devil in disguise,waiting for him. Goodman Brown blames Faithfor making him late. The older man, who has acurious resemblance to Goodman Brown, carriesa staff which resembles a black snake. When theolder man urges Goodman Brown to take thestaff to ease his walk, Goodman Brown expressessecond thoughts and his intention to go home.The older man convinces Goodman Brown towalk with him, however, and listen to the reasonswhy he should continue. Goodman Brown agreesand murmurs that his forefathers, good honestChristians, would never go on such a walk.
Plot (cont.)To his surprise, Brown finds this is not true. Hiscompanion tells him that he is well acquainted withthe Brown family and that he helped Brown's fatherand grandfather commit acts such as the punishmentof religious dissenters and the massacre of Indians.While Goodman Brown expresses surprise, hiscompanion continues to speak of the good Christiansof New England with whom he is acquainted:deacons, town leaders, even the governor. GoodmanBrown is amazed but tells his companion that were heto continue on this journey, he still would not be ableto meet the eye of his minister. Hearing this, the olderman breaks into a fit of laughter.
Plot (cont.)The two men then see Goody Cloyse, the old woman who serves asGoodman Brown's moral adviser. Not wanting to explain who he iswith and where he is going, Goodman Brown hides in the woods.Again, Goodman Brown is surprised; the woman knows hiscompanion, who has now taken on the appearance of GoodmanBrown's grandfather. The two older people talk of a witch's recipe andthe meeting that will take place this evening. Goodman Brownrealizes that Goody Cloyse is a witch.The two men continue walking through the forest. At a hollow inthe road, Goodman Brown refuses to go any further, declaring hewould rather be on the side of Faith than Goody Cloyse. Hiscompanion leaves him to think over the matter. Goodman Brownrealizes that his decision to stop will enable him to meet his ministerand deacon with a clear conscience. As he continues these comfortingmeditations, a carriage passes by on the road. Two men, who revealthemselves to be the minister and the deacon, speak of the evening'smeeting and the young woman who will be joining. After the carriagehas passed, Goodman Brown feels faint as he realizes that these men,too, are in communion with the Devil. Now he questions whether ornot heaven really exists. Yet his love for Faith gives him the willpowerto resist going to the meeting.
Plot (cont.)While he is lifting his hands to pray, however, hehears Faith's voice. He calls out for her, and sheanswers with a scream. He realizes that Faith is goingto the meeting, and he decides to attend the meetingtoo because all good is now gone. Soon he reaches aclearing with a crude altar surrounded by the "saints"and "sinners" of Salem. While the Devil'scongregation sings an evil hymn rejoicing in sin,Brown waits, hoping that he can find Faith. At a callfor the new members he steps forward, and Faith isled forward by two women. A dark figure speaks ofsin. He commands the newlyweds to look at eachother and then declares that they now know virtue isbut a dream and evil is the nature of mankind.Goodman Brown cries out to Faith to resist this evil.
Plot (cont.)He never finds out, however, if Faith does resist. Assoon as the words are out of his mouth, GoodmanBrown finds himself alone in the forest. The nextmorning he returns to Salem. Everywhere he goes hesees people who attended the meeting, but he turnsaway from them. He even turns from Faith.Though Goodman Brown never finds out whetheror not he dreamed the meeting in the forest, theexperience still has a profound effect on him. Afterthat night, he becomes a stern, sad, and distrustfulman. He rejects the faith he once had in his religionand even rejects his own wife. At his death, no hopefulwords are carved upon his tombstone. He has lived alife of gloom, seeing sinners and blasphemerseverywhere he looked.
Young Goodman Brown: Point of viewOmniscient limited – The author tells the storyin third person. We know only what YoungGoodman Brown knows and what Hawthorneallows him to tell us.
Young Goodman Brown: ConflictMan vs. himself - The conflict that Brown suffers duringhis journey in the woods is shown to be internal throughthe number of details that are projections of hisunconscious. The devil’s arguments ―seemed rather tospring from up in the bosom of his auditor‖ – that is,Brown himself. When ―the echoes of the forest mockedhim,‖ Brown is projecting his emotional state onto theforest.The further Brown sinks into despair, the clearer itbecomes that what he sees and hears is to a large extent theproduct of his fancy. ―Once [Brown] fancied that he coulddistinguish the accents of townspeople of his own,‖ but ―thenext moment, so indistinct were the sounds, he doubtedwhether he had heard aught‖ until ―then came a strongerswell of those familiar tones.‖ Ultimately Brown himself isthe ―chief horror of the scene‖ created by his own mind inconflict
ForeshadowingWhen Young Goodman Brown leaves Faith inthe beginning, she says to him, ―Pray tarry withme this night, dear husband, of all nights in theyear.‖ It is obvious later that Faith knows thatsomething is going on and she does not wanther husband out in it.
Young Goodman Brown: Theme1. Guilt vs. innocence - the inexperienced young manever has. Early in the story, Brown says: "after this onenight I'll cling to [Faith's] skirts and follow her toheaven." He believes Faith is an "angel" and one of thePuritan elect who is destined for heaven.Unfortunately, Brown's experience in the forest makeshim reject his previous conviction of the prevailing powerof good. He instead embraces the Devil's claim—"Evil isthe nature of mankind"— by crying out ''Come, devil: forto thee is this world given." This acknowledgment, fueledby the discovery of hypocrisy in the catechist, clergy, themagistrates of Salem, and his own wife, destroys Brown'sfaith in the Puritan elect. It also sets the tone for the restof his life. Critics often view this outcome as an attack byHawthorne on the "unredemptive" nature of the Puritanbelief system, which holds that people are evil by naturebecause of original sin.
Theme (cont.)2. Alienation vs. community - Though Brownsuccessfully rejects the Devil in his physicalform, he allows sin to reside within him whenhe rejects his belief in humanity. "Often,awakening suddenly at midnight, he shrankfrom the bosom of Faith, and at morning oreventide, when the family knelt down at prayer,he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazedat his wife, and turned away." By turning away,Brown becomes the symbolic representation ofHawthorne’s belief in the isolation of thehuman spirit. In Hawthorne’s own words, everyhuman being is alone ―in that saddest ofprisons, his own heart.‖
Theme (cont.)3. Good vs. evil - In "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthornepresents sin as an inescapable part of human nature. Thefact that Goodman Brown only has to make his journey intothe evil forest once suggests that the spiritual quest is a ritualall humans must undergo at some point in their lives.Brown, however, proves himself incapable of accepting thispart of the human condition and cannot move forward withhis life as a result.Faith, on the other hand, makes a leap of love and faith towelcome her husband back with open arms from hisinexplicable night away from home. Brown, however, "lookssadly and sternly into her face and passes without greeting."Whereas Faith is able to accept the inevitable fallen nature ofhumanity and live prosperously with this realization, Brownthe absolutist cannot accept this truth, and remains stuck ina state of suspicion and ill feelings. By portraying these tworeactions, Hawthorne makes a statement not only about theblack-and-white, Puritan view of good and evil, but how evilcan take other forms as well.
Young Goodman Brown: Symbolism1. Forest: A place of temptation or evil2. Faith Brown: Purity and religious faith3. Young Goodman Brown: Naiveté, piety,righteousness4. Pink ribbon: Child-like innocence
Goodman Brown's moral adviser. Not wanting to explain who he is with and where he is going, Goodman Brown hides in the woods. Again, Goodman Brown is surprised; the woman knows his companion, who has now taken on the appearance of Goodman Brown's grand
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Goodman Brown sees that the other convert is Faith. Goodman Brown tells Faith to look up to heaven and resist the devil, then suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. The next morning Goodman Brown returns to Salem Village, and every person he passes seems evil to him. He sees the minis
outside force, Goodman Brown makes a personal choice to go into the forest and meet with the devil; the choice was the true danger, and the devil only facilitates Goodman Brown’s fall. Goodman Brown is never certain whether the e
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