"Young Goodman Brown" and Its Representation of Spirituality Doubts and Double Morality

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individual's show themselves as honorable in front of their society, when the person's true identity is weak. Young Goodman Brown was knowledgeable of a happy life, built over the puritan's doctrines where bad people (or the ones who didn't follow their religious beliefs) were punished, and the good people were praise by their community. Nothing could possible go wrong for Young Goodman Brown, he had just married Faith, the love of his life, the one that supported him and guided him, who's name could also be seen as a representation of his own religious beliefs. But even when he felt so strongly connected to his Faith, his curiosity for knowledge about the reality of his own town and his desire to reassure his spirituality overcome his own beliefs and he leaves to the mysterious forest where the true was awaiting for him. "After this one night I cling to her skirts and followed her to heaven" (Hawthorne 276) . Goodman Brown denies the possible consequences of his journey, ...

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for him to meet with the devil. This demonstrates that Goodman Brown needed reassurance about the actions that were taken by his family and even himself, against those who were opposed to their religion, but Goodman Brown was ratified by the old man "I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. And I was that brought your father a pitch-pin knot, kindle to my own heart, to set fire to an Indian village" (Hawthorne 278) the author then starts uncovering the answers to Goodman Brown spirituality fears. As pointed by Walter Shear "Brown as individual must struggle against society for the very ground of personal value" ...

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