Young Goodman Brown

Part I of Essay
"", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his relations with the comm ....

Part II of Essay
.... Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before. When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile." This statement has a double meaning because his wife physically prevented him from being on time for his meeting with the devil, but his faith to God psychologically delayed his meeting with the devil. The Devil had with him a staff that "bore the likeness of a great black snake". The staff which looked like a s ....