Kategorier: Alle - hypocrisy - faith - sin - evil

av Chanay Kirby 16 år siden

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Young Goodman Brown

The narrative focuses on a man's journey into a forest, symbolizing a descent into sin and the loss of faith. Initially resolute in his beliefs, he encounters various figures who reveal the pervasive nature of sin in his community.

Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown

Deacon Goody

tells about others going
tells their sin

At what point is GB lost?

Is GB lost?
No
Yes

e. He becomes cynical of all others

See the end of the story

Make this a general agrument for all people

Can anyone be lost forever?

the trees close behine him

But he is not lost at this pt.

He is lost when he says "my faith is gone"

His resolve was to return

Faith compelled him to stay

But his faith was already at the pt. of sin

When is it too late for anyone?

"they turned; flashing forth"

Baptism into sin begins
1st Climax = No hope

"resist the evil one" = hope

leads to 2nd Climax = No hope

"whether faith obeyed he knew not"

aka Anti-Climax = decline

leaves the reader wondering if it were a dream

nevertheless, GB died without faith

the Devil says you think you are "pure" but have always been evil

they will know the "state secrets" after baptized

the list of sins

"one stain of guilt"

enough to make white tainted with red into pink

Goody Cloyce

staff was lended to her
she taught GB his sunday school

his religion began with evil

sin which so easily beset us

the decietfulness of sin

white was tainted with red which led to pink

"Heaven above, faith below"

"I will follow skirt of Faith into Heaven after I finish sinning"

"Faith is gone"

Foreshadowed by darkness, pink ribbons

the dark cloud goes down the path

"to thee this world is given"

faith is almost gone at this point

actions speak louder than words

GB had a previous relationsip with the Devil

"A world of meaning"

Broomstick stolen

"Too Far"

"Wickedness or not" P.describes the hypocracy of the town
GB says I am the first evil of my family
But he was not the first

this portrays him as naive, silly, unarmed against the Devil

Sins of the father