Sacrifice In Hawthorne's The Young Goodman Brown

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In The Young Goodman Brown, Brown appears to be the only one who experiences the horrible sermon in the woods. The reason Brown gives for entering the woods is that he has some business to attend to and would like to finish it quickly. The true reason Brown went into the woods, however, was to attend a ritual that would allow him to go to heaven (190). After entering the woods, Brown experiences events that build up to a slow revelation of who he is. Instead of being liberated, Brown is brought to a horrible truth that reveals his heritage, that of a monster. At the climax of the story, Young Goodman Brown is no longer human, but a monster.
When Brown started his journey, he was accompanied by an older man (191). The elder is described as
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