Essay on Symbolism and Double Meaning in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brow

Young Goodman cook  Symbolism and Double Meaning   Young Goodman Brown is definitely a story with several meanings and images. As I was version this story I was overwhelmed with the visual and technical images that Hawthorne projected. There was so overmuch symbolism and double meanings in the story that I believe everyone in the class was confused at one point or another. plainly to the degree that they re-read the story a second time just to attempt and fill themselves with the actual vision of the reading. One question that always seems to elicit classes about this story (both eng372 and other classes that I have attended in which YGB was read) is the actual meaning of Goodman Browns wifes cook Faith. The double meaning really sends the reader into a whirlwind of symbolism in which if analyzed enough could probably fill an entire classroom hour. roughly of the class seemed to believe that her name suggests a faith in religion or a faith in ones self and not a na me that is given. My interpretation is that faith, in apprisal to the wifes name, represents YGBs ...