Nathaniel Hawthorne composed Young Goodman Brown including the use of many evident symbols within. Most of the readers may focus on theme in other usual ways rather than in religious way. Hawthorne spent his childhood in Salemn which was famous about witchcraft trials at that time. This is an important evidence supporting that Hawthorne might really want to conceal his religious theme in the story by using allegory device and symbolism.
The exposition of the "Young Goodman Brown" is that there is a couple of a young man, Goodman Brown, and his wife, Faith. There were just married for three months. Later on, Goodman Brown has to journey into the forest to finish his secret mission before the daybreak, It is obviously seen that Hawthorne's use of the name Young Goodman Brown to represent everyman who still doesn't have much experience. Besides, the name of his wife, Faith, symbolizes his religious faith in god and, meanwhile, the forest symbolizes the danger or trouble manipulated to test Brown's faith in god. Hawthorne also uses an old man, who appears mysteriously in the woods, to symbolize the devil leading Brown into the trouble and keeping him away from faith in god. It later happens that Brown finally leaves his wife to go into the forest with the old man and promises Faith that he will come back to her and go to the heaven together. It can be explained that an innocent or unexperienced man can be easily persuaded to step into the way of devil although he promises that he would return to his faith in god after he has finished evil conduct. At last, he never gets his faith back completely as we can see in the end of the story when he finds out that no one in the village even Faith really believes in god, he cries out to Faith in order to turn to god. After that, Brown finds himself alone in the next moment without telling us whether Faith believes him or not. From these incidents, it conveys the meaning that a man can lose his faith in god if he once turns to the devil even not long, no matter how strong his faith is.
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Michelangelo was a very religious man, but he expressed his personal beliefs most clearly in his late works. His late drawings are introspective meditations on Christian themes such as the crucifixion, and in some works he inserted his own image as an onlooker in a religious scene. A Pietà One of Michelangelo's most memorable early works is a Pietà The Pietà theme shows Christ in his mother's lap, just after he is taken down from the cross. Michelangelo convinces both himself and us of the divine quality and the significance of these figures by means of ...
