Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown realizes that everyone has a capability for evil, and that there is no hope for mankind. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ambiguity to leave the readers with questions, and to put them in a similar place of confusion and paranoia to Goodman Brown. While in the forest Goodman Brown has a run in with the devil, who shows him the maliciousness of those he had once thought pure (Hawthorne 4). He finds that nearly everyone in town had malignant intentions, but he still has hope that his Faith will be at home.When he finds her pink ribbons in the woods, he knows that she isn’t pure either and he loses hope for mankind (6). The woods represents the unwillingness to become aware, Goodman Brown
