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Faith

"Take up the shield of , with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one" (Ephesians 6:16). Goodman Brown did not have . He did not have religious nor in his fellow human beings in Salem. And because he didn't have he was became vulnerable to the "flaming arrows of the evil one". Goodman Brown like all of us has battles against the devil over our guilt, our sins, and our fears. And it is up to us to decide whether we will stand up to our demons or to succumb to it like Goodman Brown. Early on in the story we find out that the name of Goodman Brown's wife is . And she with her "pink ribbons" symbolizes innocence and purity. She also symbolizes religious as well as ...

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with a second traveler, "about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank as Goodman Brown, and bearing considerable resemblance to him" (128). The second traveler is the devil. He carries with him a staff, "which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist like a living serpent. The connection here is that according to the Bible, Satan in order to tempt Eve to devour the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden appeared in the form of a serpent. The devil tells him about how his grandfather and his father had done all these atrocities with the help of the devil. Upon hearing this Goodman Brown has lost in his father and grandfather. The devil then moves on to others that are significant in Goodman Brown's life Goodman Brown is being made to believe that everyone is inherently evil and that their piousness is only a façade for their covert interactions with the devil. He imagines himself seeing Goody Cloyse, an ...

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Added: 11/13/2007 10:28:31 AM
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