#3 on 244--Goodman Brown

There are things in Goodman Brown that "say more then they seem." For instance, Goodman's wife was named Faith, and he had to leave "Faith" to go do a bad deed and was not sure if he should leave. Another thing was the old man in the woods with the shaft. The significance of that was to show that he was going to make a deal with the devil and the shaft was a snake or serpent. Goodman's name was also another thing that had deeper meaning. His name means good and sinless basically and that is what he was. He did not sin or do bad things until he went and made the deal with the Devil. The Devil showed him that people were sinning all over the place and made him think that everyone was bad. That is showing that everyone does wrong and everyone sins. The forest seemed dark and did not look like something Goodman should be getting into. This shows that his conscious was telling him to stay away because something bad was going to happen, and it did.