YGB/CHARACTERS

 Characters of Young Goodman Brown; 

  • Goodman Brown
  • Faith
  • The Devil
  • Young Goodman Brown's father

 The characters of Young Goodman Brown have communicate the idea about good and evil by contrasting each character. For example, faith is seen by brown as the embodiment of innocence, hence the name faith. Yet even after he himself declared Faith as this angelic person, but after meeting with "the devil" he can't seem to find trust within Faith anymore. Thus breaking his understanding of what is good and evil as he cant no longer trust anyone or anything. So how can he tell what is good when the person whom he saw out as the imagine of innocence's in the end might not be so innocent?  So from what I'm understanding is that the idea of good and evil is all within the mind of the person. Brown saw Faith as good and the Devil as evil, but if he cant see one as good then what is good and what is evil? 

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