Young goodman brown does not want anyone to see him meet with the man in the woods. yet, when he sees the villagers in the forest, he is upset at their hypocrisy. select the literary term that best explains the situation.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?