Free Young Goodman Brown Essays: Did the Devil Lie? :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Young Goodman browned is an ordinary man who takes a ritualistic journey into the sins of mankind. Sin is a justness of being human, which chocolate-brown has yet to substantialize. This is a story of the discovery of guilt and sin. But, the questions are Did this journey really take place? And were the people who dark-brown encountered real or specters created by the dickens? Regardless if the journey was a dream or a reality, a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. Lets call it reality because Brown was so deeply affected by it. So, the first question is answered, now, was the reality created by the devil to convert Brown or were all the people Brown encountered really as evil and hypocritical as they appeared. After Brown left his wife, Faith, he started on a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest. . . He was feeling not so alone, and thought that the devil him self could be at his back. At this very instant, Brown saw a figure leaning against a tree. The devil came as soon as Brown called him. wherefore was he so afraid he might meet the devil, when it seems to me he know he was going on an evil journey with the devil? The workfellow traveler (lets just call him the devil) shared a resemblance to Brown. In fact, when goody Cloyse sees him she say he is in the very image of my old gossip, goodman Brown,. . . So, the devil contrived himself to look like Young Goodman Brown, so Brown would feel a sort of brotherhood, or fatherhood, to the devil. He made himself more like Brown so Brown would more comfortably be swayed. To me, if the devil can change his appearance, what would stop him from changing others appearances. Whos to say that it was actually goody Cloyse that Brown saw. Brown is so hurt that that the woman who taught him his catechism could actually be a witch. As would be anyone whos idea of what is right and wrong is shattered. But Brown wasnt so easily swayed as the devil had hoped, Brown still resisted. So, the devil thought he would shake Brown even more. He contrived the voices of the deacon Gookin and the minister.