Who is young goodman brown and why does he go for a walk into a wooded area outside a village? what happens when he first enters the woods? support your answer with textual evidence.

Answer and Explanation:

"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story by author Nathaniel Hawthorne, the same author who wrote "The Scarlet Letter". Published in 1835, the story takes place in Salem during the witch hunt. Goodman Brown is a young man who believes in God and Heaven, and who looks up to several members of his community as role models in piety and righteousness.

Brown kisses his wife Faith goodbye and leaves home to an unknown errand. We soon learn he is supposed to spend the night in the forest, accompanied by the devil. Brown still seems quite sure he can resist the devil's temptation. When he first enters the woods, to his surprise, Brown sees that the very people he admired so much are all impure, have all given their lives to evil. He finds out, for instance, that the pious old woman who once taught him is actually a witch:

“That old woman taught me my catechism,” said the young man; and there was a  world of meaning in this simple comment.

It turns out Brown is being taken to an initiation ceremony. He and a young woman are supposed to accept their sinful natures and give their lives away to the devil. The woman reveals herself to be Brown's wife, Faith.

At the end of the story, it is unclear if Brown dreamed all that or if it really took place. As a result of his experience in the forest, anyway, he "loses faith" in people, seeing everyone as rotten and evil.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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