Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
“My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.”
During Brown’s journey in the woods, he discovers that many people in his community are participating in this ceremony. These people are Christian that range from his minister and deacon. He than noticed that his wife was there and that’s when he said I lost my Faith, in both senses because he now has followed the “devil” and their rituals and his wife did as well.
I think this passage is most important to me, because in a sense the devil is within the world. There are many people that claim to be Christians, or Muslims or any religion and claim that they live holy, but they are easily susceptible to the cruelness of the devil and they commit sins and add to the destruction of the universe. Kanye West once said “I told God I be back in a second, man it’s so hard not to act reckless”. I think that phrase can be compared to the characters of this story because people try to live right but there are certain force in the world such as the devil and his will that keep you from completing your goals and keeps you from living holy, if you don’t have the will power and strength to proceed and live the “right” way based on your religion than you will fail
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Your posting is well said and interesting. Thank you. –LN
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