"Young Goodman Brown"
“Evil is the nature of mankind.”(Nathaniel Hawthorne). The story of “Young Goodman Brown” depicts what Hawthorne believes the nature of mankind is, which is evil. Goodman is a man of attempted good who comes face to face with the supposed inherent evil of humanity. He cannot realize, through any normal means, whether or not this awareness is something of his tormented mind, or based on something he stumbled upon while deep within dreary, haunted forests.
Faith who seems to be good appears not to be after Goodman sees her in the forest. Faith is Goodman’s wife. She was also young and she was beautiful. She had a lot of faith in God and her religion. In the beginning she didn't want Goodman to leave, but because she had faith in him she agreed. She seemed to be worshiping the devil and has gone to the dark side. At the end of the story she lost all her faith for Goodman. This shows how Hawthorne feels about evil in mankind and how it is in everyone and he thinks there is no......
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