Lost_In_The_Wilderness

Lost In The Wilderness Lost in the Wilderness: The Outcome of Goodman Brown’s Journey through the Woods-Good or Evil' Human beings are social creatures who long to just fit in. Consequently, these groups or communities we associate ourselves with help us to determine how we view all things-tangible and intangible-that surround us. This statement may seem far-fetched at first, but just imagine the amount of mental and emotional damage one would suffer from prolonged periods of social isolation. Yet, in what situations would an individual subject themselves to such punishment' Incarceration perhaps, but this type of separation is not voluntary. By the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” the main character voluntarily removes himself from his once trusted family and community. This action of voluntary isolation itself is perplexing, while at the same time frustrating, because it is never revealed whether Goodman Brown’s experiences that led to his social separation were good or evil for him. Instead, the story is filled with allegorical implications that the reader must pull from to figure out the answer to this question. In the beginning of the story, Brown is seen as innocent and naïve in his refusal to brown, evil, goodman, woods, brown’s, story, 618, through, good, experience, young, wilderness, upon, trusted, towards, social, out, just, isolation, family, even, devil, community, 610, yet, work, wickedness, voluntary, village, suggests, separation, question, perhaps, others, one