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to go array he grows weak and falls to the ground. He "begins to doubt whether there really was a Heaven above him" and this is a key point when Goodman Brown's faith begins to wain. Goodman Brown in panic declares that "With Heaven above, and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!" This is similar to a Puritan putting his faith in God and following “God’ Plan.”
The forest that Goodman Brown ventures to in itself is a symbol. In the Puritan days the townspeople were barred from going into the forest because that is where evil lurked and even says “ my father never went into the woods…nor his father before him.” Hawthorne described the forrest as “ a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest” and even jokes of the evil lurking there when he says “there may be a devilish Indian behind every tree” and “What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!”
Hawthorne even uses ...

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