Reflection #3
“Young Goodman Brown” is a story about a man who has this lovely young wife named faith. She had a very innocent look and they had been married for three months so obviously they were still very much in love. He had to go out to do a “work” in the middle of the night. She didn’t want him to leave because she had a bad feeling but he left anyways. From what you read on the story you know that he is part of a satanic cult and that in that very night they were going to initiate him. When he left his house he went into the forest and met with a man that from the descriptions given in the book was the devil himself. In his journey to the place of the initiation he meets with a lot of people that were once part of his life like his catechism teacher, a pasture and many others. This made him think a lot about the people that surrounded him all his life. In my case it would make me think to because obviously people aren’t perfect and just because you’re a christian it doesn’t mean that you’re a saint and that your life is pink but if you do believe in God and you know what’s right and what’s not…why would you be in a forest in the middle of the night waiting to be initiated in a satanic cult? When they arrived into the place where the activity was going to take place he saw a fire camp in the middle and many other people including his wife. That shocked him the most because knowing how innocent she was and hiding that from him and doing this…but wait…didn’t he lie to her too. He told her that he was going to work in other words so why does he take it this way. At the end of the story from what we assume it was just a dream but he lost all his faith and trust in everyone around him including his wife. My point exactly, why does he act this way if it was just a dream and if it were real he was in it too? The story does leave the end to your imagination. So as a comment you can tell me what you thought the ending was or something.
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Well I’m not really sure about the ending, but I also think that anyone is perfect and that people may not be what they appear. Many pretend to be someone they’re not just to cover what they really are. Another thing that I agree with you is that if we believe in God and we know what’s right and what’s not, why should we be interested in evil things that are against our beliefs? That only proves insecurity and lack of faith.
Part of nature of men is the curiosity. Men will always go after the things that he do not understand even if is the devil. I think that was the thing that impulse Jhon Brown and many other villagers, to search the unknown.
It's true that he lie to his wife and there is no excuse for that, but he was just in there for the curiosity of what was happening. I like him would have been very shocked after seen people from the church and even his own wife. He was wrong from the beggining to just go there. And the ending that's a really confusing part... but I think that it was all real and that if the had this really evil cult, and even the devil himself was there, the have the power to make everything look like if he had dreamed it. Because they saw his real intentions.
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