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“Young Goodman Brown” is a story that is rich with symbolism and allegory, which readers interpret characters and setting as ideas and concepts to align Hawthorne’s moral allegory. ...
The story “Young Goodman Brown” is centered around symbolic characters, and settings. ... The character Young Goodman Brown is a meaning of innocence and vulnerability, Goodman Brown representing the goodness in any man or women. The name of Young Goodman Brown’s wife, Faith, is also a representation of a symbolism. ... Young Goodman Brown leaves on his journey at sunset. ... The journey Goodman Brown takes is represented as everyones path through life whether good or evil. As Goodman Brown travels deeper into the forest and closer to where the man is guiding him, Hawthorne describes the setting to be, “now deep dusk in the forest and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying”(330). ...
As Goodman Brown meets with the man in the forest, the word “serpent” is mentioned several times throughout the story. The man’s staff is referred to as a serpent, meaning snake; this is symbolic for the man in the woods representing evil or the devil.
Approximate Word count = 954
Approximate Pages = 3.8
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