Please help describe the level of language the author has used in the story "Young Goodman Brown" to create a powerful affect on a reader.

Written as a
, Hawthorne's "" employs symbolic names of characters in
order to convey a characteristic ambiguity as well as to provideandthat eventually expose the
hypocrisy inherent in Puritanism, a theology that promulgates the innate depravity of man while
at the same time exempting the "elect," those born in a state of grace. At the end of
the narrative the young, innocent Goodman Brown, who claims at the beginning, "Faith kept
me back a while," and gives the devilish old man with the serpent-like staff...