Assignment 6: Young Goodman Brown

I feel as if Goodman Brown's fellow traveler is represented throughout the story as as the evil side of Brown. When Brown is joined by this fellow traveler, the author describes him as looking almost similar to Brown, and that this follower looks like he could be related to him, and maybe even his father? I was noticing many similarities between this novella, and "Jekyll and Hyde". I'm not sure if I'm missing the point of the story completely here, but it seems to me that this strange character that joins Brown on his journey is somewhat mysterious and it is almost as if he is physically non-existent but exists within Brown himself?? I think that the fellow traveler could be another side to Brown, almost like Jekyll's split personality. The traveler seems to represent the evil part of Goodman Brown's personality and Goodman Brown (like his name) represents innocence and good. Also, like Jekyll, Brown chases after evil. For example, Jekyll eventually could not stop himself from becoming Hyde, and doing evil and was drawn to his sinful nature and Brown chases after the evil laughter and horrible noises he hears, he is drawn to them as well. In both stories, you could say that it ends badly for the main characters. Jekyll's evil ways and up leading to his suicide and Brown's chasing after evil leads him to witness a horrific site (whether he truly experienced it physically or emotionally/spiritually?) and he can never again feel the same about his wife and the others throughout town that he cared for and the story ends in his unhappiness.