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In Massachusetts there was always someone who was suspected of having some form of the devil with in them during the puritan times. In order to be excepted one had to be free of any sin, and these individuals need not have any connection with the devil. If they were they would be put to trial with accussation of being a witch. In "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappacini's Daughter" Hawthorne created two different stories that have much to do with the devil. Although these stories are different in many ways, they show how people and evil can become united. In "Young Goodman Brown" Goodman Brown goes on a search for the devil. Humans associate the devil with evil and darkness. It just so happens that Goodman Brown's story takes place in the dark forrest. He goes into the forest and he took "a dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees in the forrest" (46). It is