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Young Goodman Brown
Title: Young Goodman Brown
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 375 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Young Goodman Brown
The Irony of Young Goodman Brown
The irony in “Young Goodman Brown” is apparent throughout the story. The significant use of Faith, Goodman Brown’s wife, illustrates a literal as well as character base that parallels Goodman Brown’s own faith with himself. When Goodman Brown ventures off into the woods, he only finds himself regretting something that he is doing, and he can only think of Faith, and regrets leaving her in the first …showed first 75 words of 375 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 375 total…and Faith’s innocence. Perhaps Hawthorne is trying to stress that Faith was never going to be held by feelings of guilt, but to stay with Faith and believe in Faith was the only way to avoiding evil.
In the end Hawthorne portrays Faith as the ultimate Irony to show the world of the Puritan way of life as mostly a lie to mask the evil that exists in everyone on some level or another.
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