Thursday, October 18, 2007
Young Goodman Brown
This story is much like the story of "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde", which is about the good and evil which is immanent within human nature. I think this story has a religious theme to it, which suggests a story of morality. His wife, ironically named "Faith" sparks Goodman Brown's understanding of the good and bad that lies within human nature. Goodman leaves his house where his wife Faith resides. Which is most likely a symbol of leaving his religion, to begin a journey to an undisclosed location. I believe this story was also written not too long after the witch trials in the late 1600's, but it doesn't seem clear whether or not that has any relevance to the focus of this story.
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You're on to something with the J/H conection. The narrator tells us at one point, for eg., that GB is the most evil sight around... how can we take this, and what does this have to do with his behavior at the end of the story?
As for the witch trials--a family history there; Hawthorne's guilt over his Puritan ancestory and questioning of Puritan morality inform this story, and some others...
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