"Young Goodman Brown" follows a young Puritan man who leaves his wife Faith one night to walk a dark forest road outside Salem village — and meets a sinister stranger bearing a serpent-carved staff. As the journey deepens, Brown recognises faces he trusts most: his minister, his deacon, his childhood teacher. At a hellish midnight gathering, even Faith may not be who she seemed. Hawthorne builds suffocating dread from the tension between Brown's self-certainty and the corruption closing in around him.

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