What are the allegorical elements in Young Goodman Brown?

In allegories,
characters are representative of certain traits.  For instance, Goody Cloyse, the Catechist, and
Deacon Gookin--names of real people who participated in the Salem Witchcraft Trials--go into the
forest and participate in the Black Mass.  Thus, they represent the sanctimonious hypocrites
among the Puritans.  's name is, of course, ironic.  He certainly perceives himself as good, but
his rejection of his wife and others after he has formed his judgment demonstrates his lack of
goodness.  For he is the quintessential Puritan that Hawthorne abhors:  he concludes that all
human beings are hopelessly corrupt, totally damned, and must, therefore, be rejected. Brown's
wife Faith and her pink ribbons represent the naivete of Brown's own faith in the beginning of
the .