1. Young Goodman Brown
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let’s Explore The Basic Nature Of Mankind, Shall We?

2. First, let’s define… Allegory:
A representation of (abstract) concepts though concrete or material forms…

3. Major Characters Young Goodman Brown Faith The Old Man Goody Cloyse
Deacon Gookin
Forest
Night

4. Symbols
Pink Ribbons
Walking Stick
Townspeople

5. Themes Temptation Individual v. Society Guilt v. Innocence
Good v. Evil

6. Notable Quotes… “Faith kept me back awhile,” replied the young man.
“With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!” cried Goodman Brown.
“My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given.”
In truth, all through the haunted forest, there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown

7. The Fiend…
The fiend in his own shape is less hideous, than when he rages in the breast of man.
Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again, my children, to the communion of your race!”

8. A Little Verbal Jousting…
Is the Basic Nature of Mankind…Good or Evil?
Using The Things They Carried, House of Sand and Fog, Young Goodman Brown, and (for honors) The Scarlet Letter…formulate your opinion and discuss.
Support your thoughts with direct quotes and passages from the material at hand.