The main focus of the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the triumph of evil over good. A supposedly good man is tempted by evil and allows himself to be converted into a man of evil. In this short story, the area where the devil resides is in the forest. As Goodman Brown sets off on his walk into the forest, he believes that there is more good within his community than evil, …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…shown through a young man’s struggle against exposing himself to the devil’s wickedness. He eventually gives give up and goes evil. The devil’s place of dwelling is in the dark of the forest and here is where Goodman Brown’s soul is corrupted, as the devil so clearly states, “Evil is the nature of mankind.” Right then and there it shows that John Goodman Brown had no chance of fighting the evil.