![]() ![]() Throughout their encounter, Goodman battles his yearning for evil but slowly succumbs to it, as he is engaged to take a walk through the woods to take part in some unspecified evil. It can be said that the Devil does not force Goodman Brown into temptation but rather slowly lures him into it, playing on his curiosity. It is not a model to follow, but it is a model that all people go through over the course of their lives. Like Eve in the books of Genesis, he is punished for his curiosity by being deprived of the joy in his life. ![]() He is not fully aware of the danger and cannot help himself from wanting to know what lies behind the forest. “Young Goodman Brown” is an allegory of the fall of man, with Goodman Brown being tempted by the Devil and succumbing to him because of his curiosity and the weakness of his faith. But up until the end, he does not realize the full extent of the danger and thinks that he can handle it. On the one hand, he says that if his wife knew what he was going to do, she would kill him (Hawthorne 11), so, to some extent, he is aware of his actions. ![]() It is hard to say whether Goodman Brown knew that he was meeting the Devil. ![]()
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