In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, a Satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorica

In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, a Satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the “power of______ . ”

A.blackness

B.whiteness

C.error

D.hypocrisy

正确答案是A