e is my staff to help you along,”. The staff he gives Goodman Brown is a serpant, which continues to push him on his journey. Goodman Brown hears “the tramp of horses along the road, and deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the verge of the forest,”. When the voices of these men pass, Goodman Brown notices, “the depth of gloom at that particular spot, neither the travellers nor their steeds were visible,”. At this point, Goodman Brown has gone to deep into the forest, there is no turning back, and ultimately we know that he will come out of the forest with new perceptions and thoughts; his mind it totally confused. He believes that the voices he hears belong to Deacon Gookin and the minister. The Deacon says, “I had rather miss an ordination dinner than to-night’s meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond,... Moreover, there is a goodly young woman to be taken into communion...Nothing can be done, you know, until I get on the ground,”. The devil is altering Goodman Brown’s conscience, because he has allowed himself to travel too far into the woods. At this point, Goodman Brown has sunk deep into the depths of his conscience and he states, “Whither, then, could these holy men be journeying so deep into the heathen wilderness?”. With this contemplation, he looks up at the sky, “doubting whether there really was a heaven above him,”; he has lost his Faith.He hears the voice of a young women, “uttering lamentations, yet with an uncertain sorrrow, and entreating some favor, which, perhaps, it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners to lead her onward,”. Goodman Brown shouts, “Faith! Faith!”. She screams, and her pink ribbon comes “fluttering lightly down through the air,”. Goodman catches the ribbon, which is a figment t...
