Read the excerpt and answer the question.
"Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing
awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's
hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.
"Welcome," repeated the fiend worshippers, in one cry of despair and triumph.
This excerpt represents the
of "Young Goodman Brown."
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