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Hawthorne gives the characters specific names that depict abstract pure and wholesome beliefs, such as "Young Goodman Brown" and "Faith". The characters' names ultimately serve as a paradox in the conclusion of the story. The inclusion of this technique was to provide a definite contrast and irony. Hawthorne aims to critique批评the ideals of Puritan society and express his disdain for it, thus illustrating the difference between the appearance of those in society and their true identities.
Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown is the hero of the novel. He is young, curious about the world and he is eager to explore. At the begining, Brown thinks he can resist temptation very confidently, but after the journey in the forest, he doubted the humanity and died in desperation. When we are young, we also want to know the world and we are in favor of exploring the world and we are confident. So Brown is a typical epitome of everyone of us.
Young may represents the young, pure and simple Brown. And the Brown is a kind of color but it represents the circumstance of the plots. It indicts the place where the things happen and the place is a gloomy and dark forest which is outside the village. I think this contrasts with his great desire.
Faith
Faith is Brown`s wife, and the word “faith”in English means something people stick to for all. Brown also stick to his faith firmly. In this novel, no matter in the dream or in reality, the presence of Faith is a great shock of Brown because he always believes that the God is up above, faith is down below, and he is sure to resist evil. He hovers in the forest and wants to go back to Faith because he loves his wife and he also wants to find his faith to others and God again. And when he finds that his wife is also in the forest, he thinks his faith has gone. This “faith” can be his wife as well as his faith towards others and God.
Pink Silk Ribbon
In the novel Young Goodman Brown, the pink silk ribbon of Faith is the most obvious symbol. Pink in this novel is particularly attractive because the whole circumstance of the novel is black. The pink silk ribbon is talked about five times. Pink is the color between red and white. Red always means perversions堕落and white always means pure and innocent. Therefore, some critics think that pink is not perversions and not pure, but a pure condition which is tarnished 玷污.
Just like the discovery of Brown, the humanity is not so beautiful as he thought before. In fact, there is a dark side of humanity.
Time
Most of the affairs in the novel happen in the night. In literary, the
night is always connected with some negative emotions, such as evil, corruption, temptation and the hell. At first we are not clear about the purpose of Brown`s journey, and till the appearance of the elder person and the sight of his evil ancestors and Christians, we find it a journey of evilness of human nature.。
