Symbolism,Characterization, and Faith in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brow

Symbolism,Characterization, and Faith in  Young Goodman Brown   â Faith is accepting what you can’t see or contact. Confidence is knowing something particularly when there is no confirmation to back it up. â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† is a tale about a man who leaves his better half, Faith, home alone for a night while he travels with the fallen angel not far off of enticement. Over the span of his excursion, the man sees numerous individuals who appear to be strange, including his better half. At the point when he gets back to Salem, he is a changed man. In this story, Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes imagery and portrayal so as to suggest that when an individual loses confidence in the decency of humankind, that individual may reason that humanity (counting loved ones) has surrendered to allurement.  â â â â â â â â â â Hawthorne utilizes imagery to infer that when people lose their confidence in the integrity of humanity, they may start to envision that their friends have respected allurement. The character of Faith is Goodman Brown's companion, yet she is likewise an image of his confidence in humanity. Earthy colored's relationship with Faith changes as the story advances, from delicate and caring adoration to critical contempt. Earthy colored's considerations about Faith as he departs on his excursion may be: Poor little Faith...she's an honored holy messenger on earth;... ...ith in mankind and starts envisioning that every one of his companions are liable of transgression. Is humankind disgraceful of our confidence? No. Confidence in the decency of humanity is a faith in something for which there is verification.  Works Cited and Consulted: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Doubleday and Co., Inc.,1959.  Leavis, Q.D. â€Å"Hawthorne as Poet.† In Hawthorne †A Collection of Critical Essays, altered by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966.  Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne †The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1989.