What Does The Pink Ribbon Symbolize Goodman Brown

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“What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already and we but three months married?” This symbolizes Goodman Brown as one who lacks a deep attatchment to Faith.

Another symbol is the setting of the story. The woods is a dark foreboding place with Goodman Brown walking down a “dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees in the forest.” The bleak setting conveys the dark situation Goodman Brown finds himself in.

Faith also comes with a symbol of her own. In this case a pink ribbon. Throughout the story, Hawthorne makes numerous references to this, including reffering to her as ”faith with the pink ribbons”. Faith's pink ribbon is the focus of a dramatic scene towards the end of the story. At this part of the story; Satan has brokem Goodman Brown and everything Goodman Brown has come to know has turned out to be a fallacy. Goodman makes one final attempt to hold onto his Faith, but in the midst of the chaos, a pink ribbon falls from the sky and catches on a tree branch. This symbolizes the end of the fight for Goodman Brown, now a broken faithless man, Goodman Brown cries out, “There is no good on Earth, and sin is but a name. Come, devil, for thee is this world given.” …show more content…
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