Characters, Themes In Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

Various themes take place within short stories including “Young Goodman Brown,” which helps readers understand the analysis of stories.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” people are able to analyze different, themes, characteristics, and many other parts. Throughout “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown helps readers understand the true definition of fragility against human nature and how one culture or belief may impact a person. Thus, analyzing the themes throughout the short story is simple to pick out but so complex in understanding the perception of it. Goodman brown was such a religious person until the faults of him turning from a religious and holy man to having the devil to deceive him. The reason why Goodman Brown let the religion of Puritan ruin his faith is because he would feel self conscious on how people viewed his religion. The way Goodman Brown turns from a good person to a bad person is not only through religion but the effect nature

It shows the readers how the devil impersonated Young Goodman Brown’s friends and wife so he would turn against them. In this case, Goodman Brown gets manipulated from the devil to turn against his religious and his wife, Faith. The devil manipulates Young Goodman Brown by manipulating himself as others to lower Young Goodman Brown onto his side. Also, Goodman Brown knew what his journey was going to be about in the beginning but wanted to keep it a secret from his wife Faith. The devil uses Young Goodman Brown’s weakness against him and that is his wife, Faith. To start the devil manipulated him by pretending to be Faith and as Young Goodman Brown is along his journey, he pretends to call Young Goodman Brown as a trick to pull him closer and he succeeds. Manipulation, a very powerful lesson learned as readers can tell how the devil himself used nature, and others around him to get what he