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Dialectical Journal For Young Goodman Brown

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Passage #1 This quote shows a turning point in the story. The devil has been using methods of persuasion to make Young Goodman Brown feel isolated. Once he sees his catechism teacher, Goody Cloyse, he begins to feel isolated in the world which the devil has entrapped him in. In addition, he feels frightened because the devil has had influence on him indirectly through Goody Cloyse. The most understandable emotion Young Goodman Brown goes through is betrayal. In his Puritan community, Young Goodman Brown felt a sense of security and nourishment. When he sees his catechism teacher, he is forced to reevaluate everything that she has told him and he feels that everything she has said has influenced him to partake in this journey. Young Goodman …show more content…

Young Goodman Brown has lost all hope and is now an empty vessel waiting to be filled with sin. This shows how Young Goodman Brown’s lost of faith has allowed him to be less than human. He becomes a shadow of himself looking for trouble and specifically the devil. In an essence, Young Goodman Brown’s internal conflict vanishes and the story continues to resolve the external conflict. Young Goodman Brown blames the devil for his loss of faith but in a resigned manner. At this point of the story, Young Goodman Brown has accepted the world of sin and its follies. He believes that the devil has been given the world by God to corrupt it with sin. Once he overcomes his initial shock from losing his faith he capitulates to this world of sin. Young Goodman Brown has crossed a threshold and can never turn back to the ignorant world he has known …show more content…

He characterizes the devil in a sympathetic light to show how the world of sin will creep in unexpectedly and seize the formerly pious man. The devil uses pathos and logos to convince his audience of the world of sin. He emotionally relates to the audience to increase his credibility within the audience. He wants to show his relatability to his human followers. He wants them to see his regret and sorrow that this is the only way of life. He adds on to his argument by using the logical argument that humanity is evil by nature. In conclusion, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the devil as capable of emotion to show how convincing the arguments and influence can have the most pious people of the

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He takes a different approach, though. Young Goodman Brown has an encounter with the devil in a dream. At the time we do not know it is a dream, but Young Goodman Brown is talking to the devil who is trying to convince him that people like his father, grandfather, and his priests and deacons, etc. have come to him to seek some sort of revenge. Making Young Goodman Brown think that all of these other people have also done the things like sin, shocks him, but also makes him feel like it is not as bad if he does sin. Before anything goes wrong Young Goodman Brown wakes up from this awful dream, but now he is questioning everything and everyone.

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In both “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Hawthorne attempts to evoke the truth of the human heart. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Goodman Brown lives in Salem where everyone is considered to be pure and holy. During Brown’s journey to the forest, he runs into a man who is revealed to be the devil. “The devil!” Screamed the pious old lady.

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Young Goodman Brown tries to resist villainous temptations, thus the reader can conclude that Brown is not morally strong. Rather than confronting the story's corrupt characters, Goodman Brown just watches from a distance and break down internally. He's constantly standing in the background. In other words, he "deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the verge of the forest" (41). This quote demonstrates that Goodman Brown is not a man of action and thus is a weak and targetable character.

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In the story “Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorn uses symbolism and imagery to present the idea that messing with good versus evil is a dangerous decision. The reader is able to take away that Young Goodman Brown made the decision to choose evil and in the end he ended up dying an unhappy man. This vivid imagery and symbolism shown in the short story wasn’t enough to frighten Brown, but

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In “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne the old man is a symbol for the Devil. The old man appears as soon as Goodman Brown mentions the Devil, carries a staff that resembles a serpent, and the way the old woman reacts to the old man. By creating a physical embodiment of satan in the work, the author demonstrates how even the spiritually strongest can fall into temptation and sin. Straightaway, as soon as Goodman Brown enters the forest he imagines seeing the Devil and the old man appears.

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Through his use of symbolism and allegorical devices of the characters, such as Young Goodman Brown, Faith, the pink ribbons, and the old man’s staff, the reader is able to truly understand what point Hawthorne was trying to get across. Hawthorne effectively used ethos, logos, and pathos in “Young Goodman Brown.” When he uses the fact that he believed he inherited the guilt of ancestors for ethos, Goodman Brown seeking out evil in the world as pathos, and the fact that Goodman Brown’s ancestors participated in evil as logos, Hawthorne was able to most effectively demonstrate his Anti-Transcendentalist

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The climax was Brown becomes a completely different person on his return from the forest. During his journey to the forest, he found out that everybody is capable of sin, including his wife Faith and fellow villagers that he is proud. As a result, Brown’s view of his wife and fellow villagers changed forever. The next morning Goodman Brown returns from the forest, and every person he sees seems evil and sinful to him. When he sees Faith, “Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting”.

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All his faith, despite how shaky he had been in it before, was still solid. Having discovered that his faith is no longer as pure as he once thought, Goodman Brown no longer knows what his truth is. Everything he had taken comfort no longer has the same meaning. Goodman Brown is left asking why, regretting his decision to wander into the forest. He no longer knows who he truly is, because all he had based it off the ideals of his community, a community he no longer

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A married man during the Puritan times who makes the decision to wander in the woods to meet a stranger who shows Goodman Brown the truth about his faith and religion. The author describes this interaction to be dark/evil/suspicion. “Nathaniel Hawthorne” uses fear to develop the main idea. Fear can be seen in Goodman when he steps into the woods as he knows nothing good ever comes out of the wilderness. Goodman brown beliefs as a Puritan is that the new world is something to fear rather than dominate “(Overview).”

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As the tale went on the secret sin showed in Young Goodman Brown, how he was affected by the secret sin in the lives of others, and how this change his relationship with people he lived near. Young Goodman Brown was an innocent man in his society, and he always saw that others had this same character as well. That aspect shifted on the night he met the devil. When the secret sin made its appearance into the home of the area where they all lived in.

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As he sees the town minister and Deacon Gookin headed into the black mass, he is surprised and slightly shaken up but he responds with, “‘ With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil ’” Again, showing his determination to remain in faith. Goodman Brown continues to see many important religious figures in his community make their way to the black mass meeting and faith begins to wane. His faith is fully destroyed when he finds his wife's pink ribbon on the ground in the forest. Again Goodman Brown's wife is used to symbolize his own faith: “‘ My Faith is gone!’

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That all changes when he leaves his wife to venture out into the forest for a single night. The meaning behind this is that he is attempting to temporarily leave his Puritan faith and beliefs to commit sins for a single night, testing the waters, if you will. He then has a nightmare while in the woods that everyone he has ever surrounded himself with in life are witches and sinners, and that they are worshipping the devil. The vision also makes it appear that Young Goodman Brown is to join them that night, but when he sees his wife, Faith, he refuses and attempts to escape. He wakes up as the sun is rising, and he has been completely traumatized from this nightmare.

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