Young Goodman Brown Q&A

Questions:

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
Hawthrone's purpose of writing this story  is showing that we live in human nature and we have to deal with it because there can be evil.

2. Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her?
I think that Faith's name does fits her with her personality because pf her beauty. I think that Brown's "faith" was suppose to stay with her.

3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
I think that pink ribbons represents of Faith's favorite color and shows that about her personality.

4. Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream?  Support your answer with passages from the text.
I believe that Brown witnessed that everything was real and the evil magic started getting into him and he thinks that it was a dream. He viewed the people will be forever changed.

5. Who do you think the old man really is?  What textual clues tell you this?
I think that the old man was the devil in the story. The textual clues tells me about that he was proud of what he did to men.

6. What does the staff represent?  Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's own conscience/mind?
I think that staff represents the devil's staff. It led Brown's journey by being fooled and went to the path of evil.

7. If Brown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different?  If he'd stayed home, would Brown still have Faith?  Would he still trust his wife and his fellow townspeople?
Brown thinks that everyone will be the same like before and he trust everyone in his mind and having faith for them.