You’ve learned that an allegory is a fictional narrative in which the literal story has another parallel, deeper meaning. Read the following excerpt from Hawthorne’s short story "Young Goodman Brown." Analyze and explain the allegory used in the story

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" is an allegory that symbolizes the duality in human nature: the good and the evil. The wife's name, Faith, is used as a symbol of humanity’s inherent belief in goodness. She stands for Christian faith and goodness, while the husband stands for man’s weakness in the face of temptation. The story exposes the hollow religious beliefs of the Puritans in New England. Their emphasis on public morality served to weaken private religious faith. Through the husband’s character, Hawthorne portrays that people didn’t have inner faith in their religious beliefs, which was governed by the society more than by personal conviction.

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