he devil produced, like everything else; and says, “My Faith is gone! Come, devil; for to thee is this world given,”. Goodman Brown had completely aloud the devil to alter his conscience, and he now believes that everything is gone. And so, there is nothing left for him to do, but continue on the path. He grasps the staff, and moves on again, “at such a rate that he seemed to fly along the forest path rather than to walk or run. The road grew wilder and drearier and more faintly traced, and vanished at length, leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal to evil,”. Goodman Brown has consciously turned into a product of the devil. Upon “the witching hour” of midnight, (the darkest time of night representing unsafety) Goodman Brown arrives at the grounds were he and Faith are to be converted. He believes he sees the people from his church all gathered (another disillusion), in “a grave and dark-clad company,”. The only person he doesn’t see if Faith, and “as hope came into his heart, he trembled”. This was his last vestige of hope. Faith appears, and both she and Goodman Brown are brought forth. Goodman Brown yells to Faith, “look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one,”. At this, he finds himself “amid calm night and solitude,” his journey has ended.The next morning Goodman Brown walks back into his town a “bewildered man”. He has completed his journey. His perceptions have been altered by this journey, and his conscience is no longer in tact. He can no longer trust his wife or his religious community. He doesn’t know if what he has experienced was real, or a figment of his imagination. He feels that he can never be consciously aware of anything again, and he “was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse,”.In this story, Goodman Brown’s jo...
