Hawthorne Post #1

“My Faith is gone!” (Hawthorne 69)

When Hawthorne wrote this in Young Goodman Brown he was using a literary technique called a double entendre. This means that this statement means two separate things. By capitalizing the word Faith, Hawthorn was referring to Brown’s beloved wife. Faith was gone in that Brown had lost his wife to the evil forces. The other meaning of this statement was referring to Brown’s religious faith. He had lost faith in the church because he had witnessed all the members of his church community on their way to go worship the devil.