Society creates many illusions of the world, some good, and some bad.
But what about the way you perceive the world around you? Are you seeing the truth in the world or is it just a mere illusion of how you want to believe the world actually is. In the works Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut, one focusing on the evils of perceptive religion and the other focuses on the evils of the idea of a perfect political systems. The author’s contrasts society’s views of the worlds created to the perceptive of the how the main character react to the worlds. Young Goodman Brown is naive to the fact of there being evils in the idea world of religion. Harrison Bergeron is aware of the evils that are placed against him through an oppressive political system and chooses to fight back. In both short stories the authors set up seemingly unproblematic societies. We are introduced to Young Goodman Brown who is a resident of the village of Salem and his wife Faith. The name that Hawthorne uses specifically sticks out because …show more content…
When we think of religion was always think of everyone having committed little wrong doings and basically being close to perfect saints, because they have repented to please whichever deity you are choosing to serve. Hawthorne merely challenges the perception of religion through “Young Goodman Brown” he examines how we assume that those we associate with our faith can be seem to be good in our eyes however, there are some evils that can be hidden and because of our expectations religious leaders, being pastors, deacons, church members, even the people who are closest to us can put on a persona allowing us to think that they are one way, however they are living life completely different behind closed doors, or for the case of the people of Salem, in the
But what about the way you perceive the world around you? Are you seeing the truth in the world or is it just a mere illusion of how you want to believe the world actually is. In the works Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut, one focusing on the evils of perceptive religion and the other focuses on the evils of the idea of a perfect political systems. The author’s contrasts society’s views of the worlds created to the perceptive of the how the main character react to the worlds. Young Goodman Brown is naive to the fact of there being evils in the idea world of religion. Harrison Bergeron is aware of the evils that are placed against him through an oppressive political system and chooses to fight back. In both short stories the authors set up seemingly unproblematic societies. We are introduced to Young Goodman Brown who is a resident of the village of Salem and his wife Faith. The name that Hawthorne uses specifically sticks out because …show more content…
When we think of religion was always think of everyone having committed little wrong doings and basically being close to perfect saints, because they have repented to please whichever deity you are choosing to serve. Hawthorne merely challenges the perception of religion through “Young Goodman Brown” he examines how we assume that those we associate with our faith can be seem to be good in our eyes however, there are some evils that can be hidden and because of our expectations religious leaders, being pastors, deacons, church members, even the people who are closest to us can put on a persona allowing us to think that they are one way, however they are living life completely different behind closed doors, or for the case of the people of Salem, in the