What does Goodman Browns decision to go into the forest suggest about his character? What does Goodman Browns decision to go into the forest...

Goodman Brown's
decision to go into the forest suggests that he does not really have a good understanding of
what it means to have faith. As he walks away from his wife, Faith, into the forest, he
thinks,

After this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and
follow her to Heaven.

However, this is not how faith
works. We do not pick and choose the moments when we want to live faithfully; we are supposed to
try to live faithfully all the time. Of course, we will make mistakes and commit sins because we
are human (and this is a typical Hawthorne theme), but we are not supposed to take time-outs
from...