Topic > Critical Analysis of Young Goodman Brown - 1738

A "pink ribbon" or "pink" is visible several times in the text, "letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of his cap, as he calls the good man Brown" (Hawthorne 796). The pink ribbons in Faith's hair are extremely symbolic of her overall innocence and make Goodman Brown leaving her even more painful and fills him with guilt. The pink ribbons resurface later in the text as a bridge between the innocent Faith of the beginning of the story and the Faith of the last part of the text who will succumb to evil and join the ranks of the other members of the Salem. community. When Faith is initiated into the Witches Sabbath ceremony, and only when Goodman Brown sees a pink ribbon from Faith's cap fall from the sky and become entangled in a tree branch, does he abandon all hope, crying "My faith" It is