's purpose
is to go just one time on what he repeatedly calls an "evil" or "wicked"
mission in the woods to participate in a Satanic ritual or "witch-meeting."
He expects he might find "a devilish Indian" lurking behind each tree or the
devil himself at this elbow. He expects to be among strangers. Therefore, he is very surprised
to see himself amid the town's most religious and seemingly pious people, including the deacon,
Goody Cloyse, and even his dear wife Faith as he arrives at the meeting.
Brown is disillusioned by realizingor perhaps dreaming, as Hawthorne brings up the idea
that the witch-meeting was all a dreamthat so many of his neighbors, people he thought were good
Christians, are actually evil. This turns him into a stern, fearful, and gloomy person whose
religious faith is lost as well as his trust in others.
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