Animal farm is most likely a representation of which era

The book animal farm represented the time period when the Cold War happened

The greatest irony in Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown" is that Young Goodman Brown, named after a grandfather who was "an old friend" of the devil who walks the younger man to the black mass, is not good at all.  Shocked at the hypocrisy of everyone else--Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse--Goodman Brown is far darker in his soul than any of the others,