… And now, my children, look upon each other.” … It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom … the fountain of all wicked arts. “This night it shall be granted you to know their secret deeds how hoary-bearded elders of the church have whispered wanton words to the young maids of their households … how beardless youths have made haste to inherit their father’s wealth and how fair damsels - blush not, sweet ones! - have dug little graves in the garden, and bidden me, the sole guest, to an infant’s funeral. Near the end of the story, we hear the devil’s revelation: This puritanical vision will destroy him, and he will die, disheveled and sad. In short, during his night’s journey, Goodman Brown is shown that human life is one of sin and depravity.
He meets the devil and is brought into a witches’ coven. We focused on American literature and in that class read, among other short stories, “Young Goodman Brown.”Īs you may recall, the story is an allegory: Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife, Faith, and travels into a dark forest, which exists just outside his Puritan village of Salem. Growing into adulthood and having the privilege of higher education, I took a course at UMass Amherst with John Clayton.
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