Allegory in Young Goodman Brown
Amy Hu AP English Arbizu 9/19/03 Allegory in Young Goodman Brown There are many ways to express morals and lessons in a story. But one way that stands out the most to me is an allegory. An allegory is defined on www. ... ” The story, Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an example of an allegory. Its characters and symbols in the story are what make this story an allegory. ... Young Goodman Brown’s wife is named Faith and she represents his faith in God. ... ” This stranger resembles Young Goodman Brown in a way that “they might have been taken for father and son.” This man represents the devil that disguises as a father figure of Young Goodman Brown. He even says he knows Young Goodman Brown’s father and that he walked the same path into the forest with him.