If and when one is able to find their own way out, after testing their own strength, courage, and endurance, it would be impossible for them to emerge as the same individual who entered that forest. ... In his own mind, the safety and purity of the village is now as corrupt as the Devil's forest path. ...
Young Goodman Brown Story's Symbols or Our Own Life's Symbols? Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols to create a religious ambiguity in his story Young Goodman Brown. It is necessary to mention that he obtained much of this style from his Puritan ancestry. In this story Goodman Brown doubts himsel...
Lawson states that from a religious view-point the pink ribbons are made of "a mixture of white (purity) and red (associated with guilt and sin in the story)" (Lawson 15). ... His trip into the forest only tested his feelings for others and denied himself fault in the same actions. ...
