If you are referring to the main idea or the lesson to be
taught from Young Goodman Brown you can conclude that Hawthorne
wanted to send a message to those who call themselves "holier than
thou".
Evil is a capacity that everyone has. Everybody has
the potential of committing sin, to be led into temptation, and to turn into something
they never thought they would.
In Young Goodman Brown, a
man who always followed the right path is diverted by a strange man in a dark forest in
which he encounters those very people whom he once considered "good" turned into
creatures of evil. This, Hawthorne would argue, is what happens when you deviate from
your faith (Faith is also the name of Goodman Brown's wife, whom he left to go into the
forest).
Therefore, the morale of the story is that our
souls can be corrupted no matter what, and that no matter how much you want to
claim your kindness and purity. We are nevertheless human, and human
only.
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