Analysis of Main Characters in Young Goodman Brown I will give you some background information before I start to analyze

major characters of Young Goodman Brown. Young Goodman Brown is a short story written by the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Goodman Brown is often characterized as an allegory about the recognition of evil and depravity as the nature of humanity. The story is about Goodman Browns loss of faith. Goodman Brown falls into self-doubt after three months of marriage. To him, this marriage represents sin and depravity. His journey to the forest is symbolic of Christian self-exploration in which doubt immediately supplants faith. At the end of the forest experience, he loses his wife Faith, his faith in salvation and his faith in human goodness. This is an essay on analysis of main characters including Goodman Brown, Faith, the Old Man (Devil). Young Goodman Brown lives in Salem. He is the storys protagonist. He is a good Christian and he recently married Faith. He takes pride in his familys history of piety and his family is known as godly men in the community. However, his curiosity leads him to accept an invitation from a mysterious traveler to observe an evil ceremony in the middle of the forest.