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We read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and track one night in the Salem woods that breaks a man’s trust in his wife, his church, and his town. The story’s ambiguity turns a private doubt into a lifelong curse, asking how we live after disillusionment.

• Hawthorne’s setup in Salem and the symbolism of Faith’s pink ribbons
• The stranger with the serpent staff as lineage and temptation
• Goody Cloyse and the collapse of reputations in the forest
• Ministers’ midnight ride and the cloud of voices
• The clearing as inverted church and dark communion
• The withheld answer: dream, reality, or moral vision
• Goodman Brown’s choice of cynicism over compassion
• Lessons on doubt, hypocrisy, and sustaining trust

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