Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story that describes a nocturnal journey undertakes by a young religious and maried Goodman Brown in the village of Salem in New England. Goodman Brown starts this trip against the advice of his wife Faith with a pink ribbon in her hair who wants him to stay home for that night. Soon after, Goodman finds himself in a deep forest where he meets an older fellow traveller who wears a distinctive staff looking like a great black snake and well knowledged. At the request of the older traveller to speed up their pace, young wants to return home but the well experienced traveller convinces the young man to go deeper into the forest by recounting how his ancestors before him have undertaken this
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Goodman an innocent and credulous Christian through his meeting with the devil, his acceptation of the staff, his rejection to follow the devil and Goody Cloyse, and his refusal of baptism is transformed into a stern man who now can see people behind their immediat appearance. This short story is also prolifique with regard to literary devices. Imageries remain one aspect of this story that strikes the reader. For example, the depth or darkness of the forest and the evil communion with the altar depiction stand as if they were physically present in front of the reader. The title of the story itself is revealing in terms of symbolism. At it sound, it implies the depiction of what a young good man may stand for or the irony of it in a twisted opposite form. The names of the characters Goodman, Faith, Goody, and Reverend all play on the sense of good. Nathaniel reinforces this perspective with the narrator comment about Faith 's name in “As the wife was aptly named.” Also, the rod, the scaft, the living serpent, the snake and darkness can all be associated with evil. Personification is present in the phrase “The wind playing with the pink ribbon”. This is amazing how the author combines diction, point of view,personificationand and even allegory in this quote alone to create a scene:"But where is Faith?" thought Goodman Brown; and, as hope came into his heart, he …show more content…
Stockton recounts the tale of a princess placed by her father in a position to either offer her boyfriend to a tiger or to another young lady. Living in a semi-barbaric society the king used a public arena as a mean to refine his people by exposing them to man and animal valor. In one of his fancy exhibitions that resembled a court, someone accused would go to his arena and decide his fate. The king would give the person an option to open one of two doors and depending on the door chosen the accused would either get killed by a tiger or married a chosen woman on the spot, whether the person was innocent or guilty. It happened once that the princess of this king had a boyfriend not fitting her social stature. When the king became aware of this he sent the young man to jail and set a date for his trial. On the day of trial the princess learned purposely about the doors and knew where the woman would stand. She also inquired about the lady behind the door and learned that she was a suspicious lady who used to have some apparently simple exchanges with her fiancée. As the boyfriend entered the scene with his eyes set on the princess, she subtlety pointed her fingers to the door on the right. The narrator wants to know who is behind this door, the lady or the tiger; given that the princess had spent so many painful nights weighing on her option before the
Goodman an innocent and credulous Christian through his meeting with the devil, his acceptation of the staff, his rejection to follow the devil and Goody Cloyse, and his refusal of baptism is transformed into a stern man who now can see people behind their immediat appearance. This short story is also prolifique with regard to literary devices. Imageries remain one aspect of this story that strikes the reader. For example, the depth or darkness of the forest and the evil communion with the altar depiction stand as if they were physically present in front of the reader. The title of the story itself is revealing in terms of symbolism. At it sound, it implies the depiction of what a young good man may stand for or the irony of it in a twisted opposite form. The names of the characters Goodman, Faith, Goody, and Reverend all play on the sense of good. Nathaniel reinforces this perspective with the narrator comment about Faith 's name in “As the wife was aptly named.” Also, the rod, the scaft, the living serpent, the snake and darkness can all be associated with evil. Personification is present in the phrase “The wind playing with the pink ribbon”. This is amazing how the author combines diction, point of view,personificationand and even allegory in this quote alone to create a scene:"But where is Faith?" thought Goodman Brown; and, as hope came into his heart, he …show more content…
Stockton recounts the tale of a princess placed by her father in a position to either offer her boyfriend to a tiger or to another young lady. Living in a semi-barbaric society the king used a public arena as a mean to refine his people by exposing them to man and animal valor. In one of his fancy exhibitions that resembled a court, someone accused would go to his arena and decide his fate. The king would give the person an option to open one of two doors and depending on the door chosen the accused would either get killed by a tiger or married a chosen woman on the spot, whether the person was innocent or guilty. It happened once that the princess of this king had a boyfriend not fitting her social stature. When the king became aware of this he sent the young man to jail and set a date for his trial. On the day of trial the princess learned purposely about the doors and knew where the woman would stand. She also inquired about the lady behind the door and learned that she was a suspicious lady who used to have some apparently simple exchanges with her fiancée. As the boyfriend entered the scene with his eyes set on the princess, she subtlety pointed her fingers to the door on the right. The narrator wants to know who is behind this door, the lady or the tiger; given that the princess had spent so many painful nights weighing on her option before the