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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” it is very difficult to distinguish fantasy from reality. ... Young Goodman Brown struggles greatly with this concept after a journey into the woods where he envisions his entire community performing satanic acts. When he is awakened the next morning, he does not know whether or not the scenes he witnessed the night before were just his imagination. Ultimately, Young Goodman Brown decides that he can no longer trust anyone in the village and concludes that they are all evil. Hawthorne never confirms nor denies Goodman Brown’s decision, forcing the uncertain reader to make up his or her own mind about what happened that night. ...
When Young Goodman Brown ventures off into the forest on his journey, he is paranoid; he says, “There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree. ... 88) He is untrusting of all the creatures in the forest and afraid that something will jump out at him. ...
Young Goodman Brown knows to not trust the devil, but is greatly perturbed when he sees that his childhood catechism teacher has turned to the side of evil.
Approximate Word count = 852
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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