The world is a vast place filled with many different people that have different appearances and different abilities. However, on the inside, all humans share specific traits such as the fear of the unknown, the fear of death, and even a certain amount of evil that is impossible to erase. For example, in the Bible, Moses who led the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt, which was a very brave and chivalrous thing to do, as he was risking life and limb, had some evil in him as he had committed murder in the past. It was not just only Moses who did evil things, in fact, evil is rampant in humanity, and from that small grain of evil grows very truculent forms of evil that appeal to all. Evil appeals to all: in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” the way people express evil, the way people seem innocent, and the way people follow it proves that evil takes a hold of everybody.
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Here evil “beheld the figure of a man” (326). Evil often takes on the form of a human being in an effort to not scare away any hesitating converts. Here the Devil is a man trying to get Young Goodman Brown to follow his ways, which he is quite deft at doing. The shows just how deadly appearances can be. This relates back to the themes of evil appeals to all because he physical appearance of evil can be desirable or familiar, evil could lure a young man by putting up the facade of a rather attractive female, which leads into the next paragraph -
Here evil “beheld the figure of a man” (326). Evil often takes on the form of a human being in an effort to not scare away any hesitating converts. Here the Devil is a man trying to get Young Goodman Brown to follow his ways, which he is quite deft at doing. The shows just how deadly appearances can be. This relates back to the themes of evil appeals to all because he physical appearance of evil can be desirable or familiar, evil could lure a young man by putting up the facade of a rather attractive female, which leads into the next paragraph -