Loosing Faith in Young Goodman BrownNathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown is a story of sex, sin, and the devil, all the entertaining things in life. Hawthorne uses many literary devices to impress the force of his work. Hawthorne uses these techniques to bring out the religious themes of the story. One of the main literary devices would be imagery. One of the most important images found in history concerns faith and reaching for heaven. Goodman Brown says, "...I'll hold on to her skirts and follow her to heaven." (H-CAL 375). This follows the traditional Puritan belief that if you have faith you will go to heaven. The use of darkness and light also helps convey the religious theme of good and evil. Darkness is used to symbolize evil, with the woods primarily being where this is seen. The light is most visible at the beginning, before Goodman enters the forest. Before everything turns dark and gray. Colors also played an important role. At the beginning, Faith has pink ribbons in her hair, which represent that she is young and happy. White symbolizing purity and red representing passion,...