Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern?
A.The underlying message is that everyone possesses some evil secret.
B.The story is often read as conventional allegory in the sense that Young Goodman Brown is everyman, and his joumey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life joumey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil.
C.Faith, if taken as an allegorical figure, is the incarnation of Christian belief.
