Heroes are often seen as good and villains as bad. But, are heroes always good and villains always bad? Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried both explore the fluid nature of good and evil. In the “Young Goodman Brown,” the main character, Goodman Brown, wanted to experience the world for one night, and so left his faith behind while he set himself up for a night of adventure. He went through the forest and met the devil, and when he came back, he was not the same man as when he left. The things they carried”, talks about soldiers who are in the Vietnam War who have lost their reason for fighting and pick things up along the way throughout the story. These stories not only discuss the concepts of good and evil, but they also consider how deception plays a part in this relationship.
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In “Young Goodman Brown” there is really no hero. Someone might be led to think it would be his faith. Before he went into the forest he was a religious person. “"Amen!" cried Goodman Brown. Goodman brown "Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee."(Hawthorne pg. 375) But (what? In reality?) Likewise, “The Things They Carried” has no obvious hero. The people in the story aren’t doing anything good except killing innocent people and
In “Young Goodman Brown” there is really no hero. Someone might be led to think it would be his faith. Before he went into the forest he was a religious person. “"Amen!" cried Goodman Brown. Goodman brown "Say thy prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to thee."(Hawthorne pg. 375) But (what? In reality?) Likewise, “The Things They Carried” has no obvious hero. The people in the story aren’t doing anything good except killing innocent people and