... suggests multiple meanings. Hawthorne arouses the following associations by choosing "Salem Village" (65) in the heart of the Puritan North England as the home of Young Goodman Brown. The town is not only known for its witch trials in 1692, a series of executions of people accused of witchcraft, among them also Sarah Cloyse and Martha Corey, mentioned in the story as "Goody Cloyse ... leaving further emphasises the clear distinction between the forest and the village. In the forest the arising darkness by "all the gloomiest trees" (66) and the unknown of the wild woods where "the devil ...

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