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"Take up the shield of , with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one" (Ephesians 6:16). Goodman Brown did not have . He did not have religious nor in his fellow human beings in Salem. And because he didn't have he was became vulnerable ....

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.... beings. He then enters the dark forest, which is a palette where the devil can paint images to cloud and tempt the of Goodman Brown. And in the forest he meets up with a second traveler, "about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank as Goodman Brown, and bearing considerable resemblance to him" (128). The second traveler is the devil. He carries with him a staff, "which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist like a living serpent. The connection here is that according to the Bible, Satan in order to tempt Eve to devour the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden appeared in the form ....