Young Goodman Brown: Everyone Is Capable Of Sin

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are talking about missing a church ordination dinner to attend the
satanic gathering. The deacon says,'”Besides several of the Indian powwows,
who, after their fashion know almost as much deviltry as the best of us,'”
(311). The whole time Goodman is on the trail, he is committing sin.
Every step of the way, he is forsaking his god. He slowly succumbs to sin
as the lord of the underworld coaxes him. At the meeting, when a voice
screamed out, ‘”Bring forth the converts!'”(315), Goodman steps forward,
accepting evil. Under the right settings, anybody is capable of evil.
Using the right settings, Hawthorne creates symbolistic
environments to make so called heavenly characters turn to evil. In the
village of Salem, the villagers look up to Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse
as highly spiritual people. The village of Salem is symbolistically any
town or church, and Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse are the “sinless”
leaders of the church. Along the path in the woods, Goodman Brown ...

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