Thursday, July 16, 2009
The rouse of Goodman Brown
The guide for traveler of Goodman brown is a figure of the devil come to entice Goodman in Goodman's own evil and stir the core of Goodman to embrace his evil passions. The guide is a man that appears to look like Goodman or maybe an ancestor and he actually uses stories of the aid he provided for goodman's father and his father's father; the guide shows Goodman his friend, which is appeartly unknown to anyone else, and thus goodmen should follow him into the forest. Once enticed deep into the forest Goodman meets many people whom he knows. He see Faith his wife, Goody Cloyse, Decan Gookin, etc; these people are friends of Goodman's from Salem whom have some how found their way into the forest but Goodman's ugres his Guide to cover him up, to not be seen by them so as not to answer why he is out there and express his deeds. The characters play a big role for Goodman though they each have found their way into the forest for appreatly the same reason as Goodman to statify their evil passion only these people from salem are to watch as Faith becomes a new member by communion into the unholy, devilish church of Indian and English witchcraft.
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I see you touched on the fact that Goodman ran across some of the people he knew and hid from them. I think this was somewhat of a forshadowing that he would give in to the devil. Goodman knew he shouldnt have been with him in the forst place or he wouldnt have hid from them.
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