The forest symbolizes life that holds mystery and evil that Goodman Brown has to travel down on his journey. The staff which symbolizes the biblical perspective of the demonic serpent and his power of deception. Faith symbolizes his religious views and how his views are lost once Faith falls into the devil’s hands. And lastly, her pink ribbons symbolize Faith’s innocence and purity and how it was lost as she fell into the devil’s clutches. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s use of symbolism helps show the readers that not everything is as it may seem; that evil exists in the most unlikely
The forest symbolizes life that holds mystery and evil that Goodman Brown has to travel down on his journey. The staff which symbolizes the biblical perspective of the demonic serpent and his power of deception. Faith symbolizes his religious views and how his views are lost once Faith falls into the devil’s hands. And lastly, her pink ribbons symbolize Faith’s innocence and purity and how it was lost as she fell into the devil’s clutches. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s use of symbolism helps show the readers that not everything is as it may seem; that evil exists in the most unlikely