My Essay Essay

 Hawthorne communicates the theme in Young Goodman Brown by having characters with symbolic names, using the setting, and also representing characters as a sort of bad or devilish figure. The author lets us see the pure evil that even the good have in them. 

 The author first lets us see the good in Young Goodman Brown by having him being woken up by his dearest wife Faith. That is until he walks on onto path towards his evil purpose. In this part the author describes the setting Goodman Brown enters as "darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind". Young Goodman Brown then starts to get paranoid of demons being around.