How does the opening of this story echo a common biblical storyline?

a) faith is clearly a temptress designed to trap goodman brown in a sinful situation.

b) young goodman brown's wife very much resembles nagging behaviors of job's wife in stories from the bible.

c) the set-up of this story is a direct allusion to the sibling rivalry that existed between cain and able in the bible.

d) goodman brown's decision to go into the wilderness echoes jesus (and other prophets) going into the wilderness to be tempted by evil.

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The opening of this story echoes a common Biblical storyline because of Goodman Brown's decision to go into the wilderness echoes Jesus (and other prophets) going into the wilderness to be tempted by evil.

Explanation:

At the beginning of the story Goodman Brown decides to go in a mysterious journey, far away from his beloved wife faith, there is a metaphor in here that shows that he leaves because he was being called and tempted by sin and his faith was not strong enough to stop him, the other appreciation we can have is that it was a test for him to pass through temptation and return to his faith.

  the conflict is the challenge the main character need to solve to achieve their goals, is the major literary element because creates challenges in the story by addin uncertainty to if the goal would be achieved. in the story could be more than a single conflict, in fact, most of the stories have a diversity of them. the resolution creates a closure that may or may not be the end of the story.

  the basic types of conflict have been classified as "person againsta nature", "person against person" and "persona against self". nevertheless the basic types, some authors think that it could be more than only three types, for instance:

  i´m gonna give you a little summary about the three basic types that i think are the one importants for the question

  the confict involves stories where characters are against each other, is an external conflict, as in a gun fight or a robbery or it could be more subtle between the desires of the characters as in a love story. this type of conflict is very common in traditional literature, fairy tales and myths.

  is an external conflict between the character and an animal or a force of nature, like a tornado,a storm or even a rain. a great example of this is ernest hemingway´s "the old man and the sea"   in which the main character struggle with a marlin when he was fishing.

  in this case the conflict is internal, the character must overcome her or his own nature or make a choice between two paths.

  i hope the answer is correct and you. regards