Young Goodman Brown

The Young Good Brown is a story that I red when I join a reading club. This is short story that tells about a young’s struggle in the heart and written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in1835. It is also the one of the greatest in American literature.

The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, New England during the Puritanical witch paranoia of the seventeenth century. Young Good Brown goes to meet an evil wizard to join a secret assembly in evening. During his journey, he discovers the human nature different appearance. For example, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught Goodman Brown his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin, has the relations unexpectedly with the devil moreover is a witch. Another example is his dear wife, Faith, who is a woman, who is aptly her named and always dresses a pink ribbon on her hair. At the beginning of the story, Faith requested her husband do not leave home, but at the last, Young Goodman Brown sees her dear wife appear on the secret assembly, a devil assembly. Dose it represent that Faith is not faith not only to him but to the God? Is it just a night mare or a real bad nigh? No matter which is true, the rest of his life will live in suspecting and suspicion. Especially to is wife Faith.

This is a story that is full of allegory, for instance, the Faith’s pink ribbon. The color, pink, is mixed with white and red. In the West Country, the color is representing faith and young and the red is representing evil and angelical. Another allegory is about his name Young Goodman Brown, Goodman and Brown. I do not tell details there.

After reading this short story, I cannot know clearly what it is describing about actually. Because there are old-used characters such as thee, thee, thy and so on, they are difficult for me to handle the article. Another reason is that I do not really understand the setting of the story. There is about historical dispute between Christianity and heathen and as if tremendously effect the author.

Even though I so not really understand, but I still realize something. It is cannot be too stubborn to a person. Moreover, we must learn and accept people’s different appearance. Although they participated in not a good assembly, but that does not represent they are an unprincipled person. In the reality life, they are the good people at least, and do good deeds. What is a painful matter that lives in suspicion in the rest of live? But if I were he, would I go out this shadow? It is very difficult to say. I am a person who is so easily to be affected.