The
broadness of the journey is given set parameters of a witches
Sabbath. As for the symbols, they are
given up to new literary devices as well.
As
the story progresses into the complication, the ability to
recognize Hawthorne’s use of literary devices seems to
digress. As Young Goodman Brown
becomes lost in the dark forest he is immersed in, likewise, the reader becomes lost in the
ambiguousness of the literary devices he or she is immersed
in. It is at the complication that the
reading becomes complicated and the reader becomes confused. Although their are many
different interpretations of Brown’s experiences
in the forest, here are two strong ones:
first of all, the idea that his entire journey into the forest, the meeting
with Satan, the witnessing of the entire town at a witches Sabbath,
and the
climax of his and his wife’s unholy communion was nothing more
than a dream;
