Young Old Good Bad
September 23
Hawthorne purpose for writing Old Goodman Brown was to show how people can be deceiving. His wife's name being faith does not fit her in the way that Brown was demonstrating. To herself faith could be a suiting name, in his case she wasn’t as faithful as her name. The pink ribbons signify purity in the beginning of the story, sort of like young love and that newly marriage love kind of thing. Between the story the ribbons fall and that can signify purity leaving or failing in a way. What he had experienced was merely a fragment of his imagination in my option. His wife had left him with that suspicion of doubt that something bad was going to occur, so he already had thoughts that were accessing his brain. “Poor little faith” he says and his innocence to her allows these wicked thoughts from taking over so easily. The old man can be interpreted as a greater evil or the devil. “The devil screamed an old woman.” And like the devil, the serpent is also a connection made when speaking of him. That’s what the staff represents, a serpent. This is the paranoias that Brown has that leads him to think that the end of the staff looks like a tail. If brown had not ventured then he would’ve still been innocent, blind even. There would be no reason for him to doubt his faith or his beliefs. He would’ve been an empty but happy follower.
Hawthorne purpose for writing Old Goodman Brown was to show how people can be deceiving. His wife's name being faith does not fit her in the way that Brown was demonstrating. To herself faith could be a suiting name, in his case she wasn’t as faithful as her name. The pink ribbons signify purity in the beginning of the story, sort of like young love and that newly marriage love kind of thing. Between the story the ribbons fall and that can signify purity leaving or failing in a way. What he had experienced was merely a fragment of his imagination in my option. His wife had left him with that suspicion of doubt that something bad was going to occur, so he already had thoughts that were accessing his brain. “Poor little faith” he says and his innocence to her allows these wicked thoughts from taking over so easily. The old man can be interpreted as a greater evil or the devil. “The devil screamed an old woman.” And like the devil, the serpent is also a connection made when speaking of him. That’s what the staff represents, a serpent. This is the paranoias that Brown has that leads him to think that the end of the staff looks like a tail. If brown had not ventured then he would’ve still been innocent, blind even. There would be no reason for him to doubt his faith or his beliefs. He would’ve been an empty but happy follower.
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