Hawthorne is a man of loaded words and vague, yet meaningful, expressions. Within his works, are a plethora of lessons to be taken away and messages to be reflected on. One such message being his reference to enjoying the good and the bad life has to offer. On the surface the meaning comes across as nonsensical ramblings, however when thought about for a short period of time, one can easily understand the power behind the phrase. “There is no fate in this world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows”; In order to appreciate the good, you must acknowledge the bad and understand that without it, truly appreciating the good is impossible. This message is strewn throughout his story “Young Goodman Brown”. Ultimately, Goodman
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Without joy, there is no love or appreciation for beauty. In retrospect, without sorrow there is no grief in which to compare to happiness. Young Goodman Brown loses his ability to feel anything except cynicism and he becomes a skeptic of everything and everyone in his life causing him to alienate himself from everyone who would otherwise show him compassion. In the reading it states that Young Goodman Brown becomes a distrustful man from the night of his nightmare until the day he died where he was laid to rest with a barren tombstone (Young 378). Due to his inability to show compassion and trust he becomes a prisoner in his own body. Hawthorne uses circumlocution throughout the entirety of the closing paragraph to emphasize the fact that the main character has led a dank and pitiful …show more content…
Goodman Brown, upon realizing that the man beside him is the Devil, makes the point that as long as he has God and his wife supporting him he can conquer the demons whispering in the dark. Although, after his belief that he has lost his wife, he believes he has now been abandoned on all fronts and is now vulnerable to coercion. He has lost all light in the dark recesses of his mind and becomes lost to the abyss. Anyone who struggles with depression will verify that this is, in fact, a fate worse than death. When you feel there is no reason to go on, simply waking up each day is a chore. Though Goodman Brown neglected to take his own life, from the day of the dream until his last breath he was already committing suicide every day simply by living with the skepticism and negligence of daily
Without joy, there is no love or appreciation for beauty. In retrospect, without sorrow there is no grief in which to compare to happiness. Young Goodman Brown loses his ability to feel anything except cynicism and he becomes a skeptic of everything and everyone in his life causing him to alienate himself from everyone who would otherwise show him compassion. In the reading it states that Young Goodman Brown becomes a distrustful man from the night of his nightmare until the day he died where he was laid to rest with a barren tombstone (Young 378). Due to his inability to show compassion and trust he becomes a prisoner in his own body. Hawthorne uses circumlocution throughout the entirety of the closing paragraph to emphasize the fact that the main character has led a dank and pitiful …show more content…
Goodman Brown, upon realizing that the man beside him is the Devil, makes the point that as long as he has God and his wife supporting him he can conquer the demons whispering in the dark. Although, after his belief that he has lost his wife, he believes he has now been abandoned on all fronts and is now vulnerable to coercion. He has lost all light in the dark recesses of his mind and becomes lost to the abyss. Anyone who struggles with depression will verify that this is, in fact, a fate worse than death. When you feel there is no reason to go on, simply waking up each day is a chore. Though Goodman Brown neglected to take his own life, from the day of the dream until his last breath he was already committing suicide every day simply by living with the skepticism and negligence of daily