In the novel of Young Goodman Brown is a story about a man taking a walk, or is he taking a walk? His wife who loves him dearly, or does she? That's the whole story. Does he, or does he not? His life was built upon religion and trust and by the end, everything completely changes when this illusion goes away? We have no context if he was asleep before even walking or during the walk or even if this walk ever happen. This illusion? It had his wife named faith, die right in front of him, everyone he knew they were evil. Devil worshipers. All he knew was completely flip, now he doesn't trust anyone.
In reality, should we really trust anyone or anything? In this novel everything was like a nightmare, all was peaceful. Then boom, everything was back to normal? This whole story is just a huge question mark. That's all the theme is, you can believe what you want but we don't know if young goodman brown really did meet the devil nor seen his faith vanish. In one of the sections of goodman brown woke up, or not we don't know. Upon the climax it looked like everything he had was gone. His wife, his beliefs, and his community. It was like a nightmare. Now, everything seems fine expect young goodman brown.
Young Goodman Brown looked like he was in a world of deception. It seems like what he is thinking is all of you are acting like you did nothing wrong. Even ignoring his faith. We could go the extra layer and say he had ROCD, where the person is in doubt about their relationships. Though we will never know.
In conclusion there was no conclusion in the story. The only way there will be an ending is through you. You can decide if it was a dream or not. If the people around are good or evil. If what he woke up to is still a nightmare inside a nightmare.
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