My Essay Essay

In the story Young Goodman Brown  Nathaniel Hawthorne communicates this theme by showing how browns beliefs are so strong but yet he seems to believe in something else towards the end of the story. This story shows how someone can change at any moment no matter their religion or beliefs. This story leaves us thinking if it was  real or imaginary. The story starts with brown walking  through the woods leaving his faith. Brown enters into the forest and starts sees all the good people he once knew turn into someone evil.
    All these people seem to be completely different back in Salem but the evil is strong enough to bring them regardless of there religion and beliefs. The Arthur uses symbols to demonstrate the evil in their life. He described how faith is being used in two meanings. Hawthorne also shows how the ribbons are disappearing slowly as he walks showing how faith was may be lost with the company of the devil. Hawthorne also uses a tale to relate the Salem witch trials from the late 1600s showing their traditions. He believes that everyone attending the meeting  are with the devil.
    Throughout the story he starts changing the way he sees the world. He actually ends up changing the way he sees it and that doesn't help him at all but instead creates allusions that he starts seeing. One of the allusions he starts seeing is the staff because he notices the snake on the staff and says it moves. The staff was from the man that offered it to him so it can get him to the meeting he was going to. When hawthorn starts talking about the old man and how he once new browns parents and all the Christians Brown was confused because how can someone christian attend to a meeting like the one he was attending. I think the old man is the devil and symbolizes his age and what he soon became to be. I also think he was once a christian but something caused him to change as he grew older. This shows how someone can change over time.
   As he goes further he sees a an old women known in her village for her piety and good deeds she was Goody Cloyse. She claims that the old men is the devil while she is the witch in the story. she needs help with the old men and the forest. shes on the way to an evil ceremony where two new converts will be welcome into a dark cult. More and more people start showing up even the preacher and the governors wife start showing up. He then sees a pink ribbon and hoping its not faith but sooner or later it's her and they both are being worship with the devil.
 Mean while he is all alone and gloom because he believes all the people he knew were with the devil but in the end its not clear if it was all a dream or real. I personally think it was his allusions because he started to freak out while walking alone which caused him to freak out even more then he already was ever since faith his wife wouldn't let him go. I also believe the whole point of the story shows how anyone can change at any time and it just happened to be with his people.