Part one of term paper
In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the characters and settings are used to show allegory. The characters and setting are used in metaphor to represent something else. The whole story of “Young Goodman Brown,” represents the journey of everyman. It’s path that everyone follows, or so Hawthorne seems to ...

Part two of term paper
... call fate. Goodman represents just that, a good man. Faith, Goodman Brown’s wife, represents just that, faith. She stands for Brown’s faith in god or a greater power than himself. “There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away, leaving the clear and silent sky above goodman Brown. But something fluttered down through the air, and caught on the branch of a tree. The young man seized it and beh ...