Hawthorne uses The Evil Assembly as the final stage of transition for Goodman Brown. Hawthorne adds this final element to show Goodman Brown’s final transformation to follow evil. The author is able to explain this transition very well it’s a literal transition from good to evil. Even though Goodman Brown did not partake in any activities during the assembly it’s the things he saw also the people that joined it. Before Brown was still thinking of going to the assembly he notices the minister’s and deacon’s voice. He is shocked that these two significant strong men of faith are in the forest at this late hour. “he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin…passed on through the forest, where no church had ever been gathered or
