“'Faith! Faith!’cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven,and resist the Wicked One.'”
Questions:
A.Identify the work and the author.
B.What idea does the quoted sentence express?
A.Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown".
B.Goodman Brown here is obviously addressing the image of his wife, urging her to resist the devil. At the same time he is exhorting himself to have faith, to look heavenward, to withstand the infernal eloquence of the Wicked One.