In life a common want is to fit in so the idea of not fitting in and being exiled is intriguing to think about. In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin that scenario plays out. The exilation of characters enhances a story by simultaneously alienating and enriching them, strangely compelling the readers to read on. Exile can be caused by an endless amount of reasons, but, the removal of an individual itself can be caused by either those with power over an individual or by the individual themselves. In A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin the main female character is banished with the latter option. The female character is a testament to how someone can be close physically to one’s home, but mentally as far away
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It is found in Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne. Goodman Brown exiles himself from a couple of different groups. At the beginning he hurries himself away from the village that holds his wife named Faith as well as his faith in God (that might as well be one and the same) and into the menacing woods (representing evil) with a believing that “We (Puritans) have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first man of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept” (Paragraph 17, Hawthorne). Goodman Brown living in the village has always been a bright experience. In the woods he soon is greeted by a traveler that alienates/dehumanizes Goodman Brown by assuming Brown 's own face. This also leaves it unclear to whom the man is, forcing the reader to continue the story to find out the man’s identity. When Goodman Brown meets a woman on the path and she greets the man that resembles Goodman Brown by screaming “The Devil!”, the mystery of who the unknown man is resolved but just as that happens a new question popped up, why is a fellow church member in the woods, along with the ongoing question of if he will keep his Faith during his travels in the woods (Paragraph 29, Hawthorne). But if he will keep her is yet to be determined and for why would Goodman Brown go into the forest at all? Questioning his loyalty to the
It is found in Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne. Goodman Brown exiles himself from a couple of different groups. At the beginning he hurries himself away from the village that holds his wife named Faith as well as his faith in God (that might as well be one and the same) and into the menacing woods (representing evil) with a believing that “We (Puritans) have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first man of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept” (Paragraph 17, Hawthorne). Goodman Brown living in the village has always been a bright experience. In the woods he soon is greeted by a traveler that alienates/dehumanizes Goodman Brown by assuming Brown 's own face. This also leaves it unclear to whom the man is, forcing the reader to continue the story to find out the man’s identity. When Goodman Brown meets a woman on the path and she greets the man that resembles Goodman Brown by screaming “The Devil!”, the mystery of who the unknown man is resolved but just as that happens a new question popped up, why is a fellow church member in the woods, along with the ongoing question of if he will keep his Faith during his travels in the woods (Paragraph 29, Hawthorne). But if he will keep her is yet to be determined and for why would Goodman Brown go into the forest at all? Questioning his loyalty to the