YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN QUESTIONS

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
That he will do anything to keep is wife faith to say alive and go to heaven.
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?
Well I agree because he thinks that anything he does is possible for his wife to be good and loving with good health. I think that this name is good for her because it fits what he thinks about her, even though that he kind of lost a little connection with her.
3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
There is something different in her compared to all the other people.
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 think that it was a dream it didn’t seem like that could happen to me even though it is a story. For example: “Faith, with the pink ribbons, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village.” That’s when I figured that he just dreamed because she was okay.
5. Who do you think the old man really is? What textual clues tell you this?
I though the old man was just his consciences talking to him, also trying to help him out.
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 the staff represented his mind because of wanting to believe everything he was thinking and in the end not being true.
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?
I think that by going in to the forest can caused a different thing between his wife and him because things could happen when they are not together. I also think that it would be better if they stayed together they would be together and happy in the end. I think that he would trust her even more if they were together because they can watch over each other and have each other to solve anything they have.