Young Goodman Brown

Blasphemy, the act of mocking something that us holy, appears several times throughout the last part of the story. Identify at least two notable examples

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The scene when Young Goodman Brown gives up trying to resist the Devil's temptations is a good example of blasphemy:

On he flew among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him. The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.