There is a correlation between Chillingworth and the Black Man because both are said to dwell in the woods. It is also interesting to mention that when we first see Chillingworth he is leaving the forest and heathens. This is interesting because one could think he had developed the precursors for his evils in the dark forest. Chillingworth’s physical characteristics are often compared to dark aspects of nature such as fire and nighttime. The comparison to fire is relative to his transportation because it represents the evil in him but also the destructive force of his nature.
He informs his wife he must set off into the forest to embark on a journey in which we are not told why. On his journey in the woods, Goodman Brown comes in contact with an eerie man who claims to have known Goodman's father and grandfather. Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the man as an evil looking man who displayed poor character, which raises Goodman's speculation of the an truly knowing his father and grandfather. The man and Goodman continue off into the forest, where they meet an elderly woman named Goody Cloyse. The woman confirms Goodman's suspicions of the old man as being an evil spirit and to which she lets him know that she is a witch herself.
``and while he sits keeping his father company I can look after his stable for him, go ploughing through snowdrifts up to my knees-nearly frozen-``(232) She got to be more angry with John because the storm just kept on getting worse and he just left her there. ``Sometimes the wind struck with sharp savage blows`` (233). As the setting got more violent the mood changed sometimes it was a happy mood or it was a frightened and angry mood, the worse the storm got the angrier the mood became. Before John had left he had said that he was going to get Steven to come over to help with chores and to keep Ann company while he was gone but as the day went on Ann was beginning to think that he would not come either. ``She began to doubt whether Steven would come in such a storm even a mile was enough to make a man hesitate.
Similarly, In the woods the stranger who walks alongside him is the devil, which symbolizes his walking with evil and encountering evil. Likewise, his awareness of evil and the fact that not just himself but every human, even the local church people and his own wife, may fall prey to it causes him to lose his faith in mankind. As soon as innocence is gone a person can never quite look at life the same way again. For example, Goodman Brown started his journey a young man and returned with a loss of his youthful innocence. Whether his journey into the woods was a real one or only a dream, it had a negative effect on Goodman Brown; it corrupted his innocence and pureness.
He realizes that what he has done was very wrong. He imagines the insults he will have to put up with when he returns to camp and tries to get as far away from them and the monster as possible. He walks into a forest. The noises of the war gradually become muted. He feels more at peace with his self.
For the towns people the forest was consider where the “Black Man” lived but to Hester and Dimmesdale is a place to have freedom from their strict society. The forest represents a natural world, governed by natural laws, as opposed to the artificial, Puritan community with its man-made laws. The forest also represents evil and darkness. Townspeople believed that the devil lives among the dark forest and that a men such as Dimmesdale can “yield himself with deliberate choice . .
The portrayal of the eerie wood indicates an unwelcome place, especially as it is widely known by the people to inhabit evil monsters in the form of Grendel and his mother. To the Anglo Saxons, who valued peace and home virtues, the dismal wood takes them away from everything they know. Even the trees in the wood are undesirable, described as being “covered with frozen spray” and that the roots “wind down snakelike”. These trees are not an endearing sight to the Anglo Saxons who do not understand the dreary way the trees are “covered”. Anglo Saxons are not sheltered or “covered” like this wood, they fight for personal freedom.
At the beginning of the novel, the scene is taken into a forest with plenty of sunshine and a tree promising that life is beautiful. But soon the nature is replaced by a human world that contains jealousy, cruelty, loneliness, ruthlessness, strong and ending emotions, and shattered pieces of dreams. The vision of hope through Steinsbeck’s pen, we feel that we also enter in this world of hope and are drawn into the journey with these common two men, Lennie and George – in the course of the novel we witness their dreams, hopes and courage. Unlike other characters like kings and queens, we have little men
He also starts to blame nature for being unnatural, when it is actually doing exactly what it is supposed to. It almost seems like he thinks that nature is taking him for granted for all of the services he provides for it. He then seems to think that revenge is his new motivation in life and that because he isn’t with Juliana, when he cuts the grass he will also fall. In the end of the poem, the
He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.” (15:132.) Because his creator had discarded him, the creature looks for other people in society to accept him for the way he is. He goes out into the woods, hoping he would find another person that would love him and care for him unlike his creator. He comes upon the De Lacey family. At first he learns to read and talk by watching over the family.