What did goodman brown's role (family/social) have to do with the onset or beginning to his madness?

I'm not sure
I would identify his state as "madness," for it gives it a pathology that in my view
is more symbolic than real.  But certainly the social/cultural context of his life generate his
demise at the end of the story.  That context would include the setting, for it takes place in
the Puritan village of Salem, first settled in 1626 and the site of the famous witchcraft
hysterial of 1691-1792.  John...