Ultimately in life each person goes through the process of the demise of innocence, because evil is omnipresent. Everyone has a shadow side to himself. Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" displays a protagonist's archetypal journey to the discovery of evil in mankind. Hawthorne's use of the threshold motif depicts the archetypal struggle between good and evil and the inevitable loss of innocence. Set in the Puritan age, Goodman Brown embarks on a voyage …
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…of innocence. Goodman Brown's journey begins in a Puritan society and then continues into an evil forest where he faces metaphorical monsters that test his beliefs. He comes out of the forest a distrustful man surrounded by the sin of society; moreover, he overtly showed this distrust by ignoring Faith, and others that he had once trusted. This journey helps Brown to realize that wherever he is, and whenever the time, evil will always exist.