Demons By Imagine Dragons

In "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, symbolism plays a key roll in the over all meaning of the story. In the passage, there are several symbols including the serpent staff, the familiar people, and the mysterious pink ribbon. The serpent staff represents the temptation of choices. In the Bible, Eve is tempted by the snake to eat from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; which God told her very plainly not to do, but she gave into temptation. In the story, Brown can either go back to his wife or continue on down the path, and he chooses to carry on which turns out badly for him just like it did for Eve. The next symbol in the story is the familiar face that he runs into on the dark forest path. The lady he meets, Goody Cloyse, is the Devil in disguise coming to him in a form he will recognize and trust. In short, it is the Devil that is trying to make him doubt God. The last symbol in the passage is the pink ribbon which represents a message from God saying he made the wrong choice. The ribbon represents what he should have chose and is also a foreshadowing saying that Faith, his wife, is pregnant with his daughter. The entire story symbolizes the choices we each have to make in life. We can do what we know is right or we can choose what maybe wrong but more enticing. One can stay and enjoy what they have or believe that the grass is always greener on the other side. In the story it says, " On the Sabbath Day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear and drowned all the blessed strain." At the end of the passage, it turns out Brown was dreaming and now see's everyone in a new light; like he saw who they really are.