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In almost every piece of literature you find certain words or descriptive objects that point towards a meaning that the author is trying to convey. Although sometimes one can look right over them and not notice them at all. These symbols play a key role in helping to move along a piece, as well as to help expose any meaning the author is hoping to expose. One such meaning is from “The Pardoner’s Tale,” Geoffrey Chaucer, which takes place and was written during the middle ages. This short story focuses on a group of highly intoxicated friends, who after seeing their deceased friend pass by decide to hunt down and kill death. Along their journey they meet an Old Man. This Old Man tells how he passed death by an old tree, and points …show more content…
With that discovery comes a few unforeseen issues, one of the main issues is how the human population is increasing faster than we can create energy, find new planets to live on, and find ways to name people. In the story as the time progresses, they go from naming people as we know it. With a first and last name that is usually different from their parents. Then as they start running out of those combinations, they move on to a point where children have the same names as their parents just with being called the second or third afterwards. After that era passes, they then just begin naming by a random series of numbers and letters from the alphabet. But due to population explosions, the eventually just refer to each other as man or person. After all that it leaves the reader wondering where would we draw the line for things like that, a name is something that gives us a piece of humanity after all. It’s what makes us unique and different, rather than just being a person or thing. That question of where do we draw the line for humanity is one of the many hidden meanings in the last …show more content…
This is present in “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne, this story is set during the salem witch trials. Our protagonist is a very religious man, and he ventures into the woods after saying goodbye to his wife. He ventures into the woods to explore the activities that he thinks are happening in there. The first person he comes across is a man who claims to know him, and he has a cane that has a lifelike snake carved in. This snake has a sense of evil with it, right after he meets this man an elderly lady comes up and proclaims that he is the devil. Then he vanished just as fast as he arrived, and Young Goodman Brown follows him to a cermony. At which he sees everyone he knows worshiping the devil, after which he wakes up and sees everything differently. The symbol of the snake alerted the reader that something evil or mysterious would
In almost every piece of literature you find certain words or descriptive objects that point towards a meaning that the author is trying to convey. Although sometimes one can look right over them and not notice them at all. These symbols play a key role in helping to move along a piece, as well as to help expose any meaning the author is hoping to expose. One such meaning is from “The Pardoner’s Tale,” Geoffrey Chaucer, which takes place and was written during the middle ages. This short story focuses on a group of highly intoxicated friends, who after seeing their deceased friend pass by decide to hunt down and kill death. Along their journey they meet an Old Man. This Old Man tells how he passed death by an old tree, and points …show more content…
With that discovery comes a few unforeseen issues, one of the main issues is how the human population is increasing faster than we can create energy, find new planets to live on, and find ways to name people. In the story as the time progresses, they go from naming people as we know it. With a first and last name that is usually different from their parents. Then as they start running out of those combinations, they move on to a point where children have the same names as their parents just with being called the second or third afterwards. After that era passes, they then just begin naming by a random series of numbers and letters from the alphabet. But due to population explosions, the eventually just refer to each other as man or person. After all that it leaves the reader wondering where would we draw the line for things like that, a name is something that gives us a piece of humanity after all. It’s what makes us unique and different, rather than just being a person or thing. That question of where do we draw the line for humanity is one of the many hidden meanings in the last …show more content…
This is present in “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne, this story is set during the salem witch trials. Our protagonist is a very religious man, and he ventures into the woods after saying goodbye to his wife. He ventures into the woods to explore the activities that he thinks are happening in there. The first person he comes across is a man who claims to know him, and he has a cane that has a lifelike snake carved in. This snake has a sense of evil with it, right after he meets this man an elderly lady comes up and proclaims that he is the devil. Then he vanished just as fast as he arrived, and Young Goodman Brown follows him to a cermony. At which he sees everyone he knows worshiping the devil, after which he wakes up and sees everything differently. The symbol of the snake alerted the reader that something evil or mysterious would