Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
In "young Goodman Brown" , the theme that nathaniel hawthorne portrays to Goodman as he's trying to hide himself from Goody Cloyse is : A. Guilt
He felt a crushing sense of Guilt because He's abandoning Faith
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