Essay on Loosing Faith in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown

Loosing Faith in Young Goodman Brown   Nathaniel Hawthornes, Young Goodman Brown is a story of sex, sin, and the Devil, all the entertaining things in life. Hawthorne uses many literary devices to instill strength in his work. Hawthorne uses these techniques to bring out the religious themes within the story.One of the main literary devices would be imagery. One of the most important images found in the story pertains to Faith and reaching heaven. Goodman Brown says, ...Ill cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.(H-CAL 375). This follows traditional Puritan belief that if you have faith you will go to heaven. The uses of dark and strike also help convey the religious theme of good and evil. Dark is used to symbolize evil, the woods is mainly where this is seen. Light is mostly seen in the beginning, onwards Goodman enters the forest. Before it all becomes dark and gray. Colors also played an important role. In the beginning Faith pink ribbons in her hair, which rep resent that she is young and happy. With clean-living symbolizing purity and red representing passion,...