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meggie457
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What news about the human race, specifically, its true nature, does Goodman learn during the very odd event to which happened in the forest?

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Posted by meggie457 on Wednesday February 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM and tagged with young goodman brown.

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  1. rshaffer Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    During Goodman Brown's journey through the woods, many strange things occur that foreshadow the end where Goodman Brown finds himself in at the Devils altar surrounded by saints and sinners.  The Devil's congregation is singing sinful hymns, and Goodman Brown is searching trying to hold onto his "Faith."  However, when he looks up, he sees his wife, Faith, also at the altar.  He pleads for her to resist evil, a task he himself was not able to do, and soon finds himself alone in the middle of the woods.  At this point, Goodman Brown realization of the human race is that virtue does not exist and evil is the nature of mankind.  Thus, he becomes a stern, sad, distrustful man.  The realization that evil exists in all human kind is too much to bear for Goodman Brown.

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    Posted by rshaffer on Thursday February 5, 2009 at 6:44 AM