This passage is a short excerpt from Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown. This is the part when Young Goodman Brown, who just finished journey in the forest at the night, returns to the Salem as a perfectly changed man. He is grim, stern, skeptical, and misanthropist. The main cause of his change is his absolutism about good and evil. All the pious and virtuous people turns out to be hypocrites in the woods, but Goodman Brown cannot tolerate the coexistence of good and evil. His binary opposition of good and evil prevents him from acknowledging the evil potential in humankind including
