Read the passage from "Young Goodman Brown." What does the woman most likely represent?
be
O spiritual leadership
O community
O fabricated spirituality
O motherhood
As he spoke, he pointed his staff at a female figure on
the path, in whom Goodman Brown recognized a very
pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his
catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual
adviser, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin
"Ah, forsooth, and is it your worship, indeed?" cried the
good dame. "Yea, truly is it, and in the very image of
my old gossip, Goodman Brown, the grandfather of the
silly fellow that now is. But--would your worship believe
it?--my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen,
as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and
that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of
smallage and cinque-foil and wolf's-bane--"