Every story we have went over in class have deep meanings and many elements hidden within the stories. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar A. Poe were amazing writers and are two of the best of all time. They have a very similar style of writing and were so much different than anyone of their time. They wrote about human nature. They portrayed humanity as evil and they wrote about real emotions like sin and guilt. We read the story “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Tell Tale Heart” in class and went over many elements and characteristics of characters. The character Young Goodman Brown in “Young Goodman Brown” and the Narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” have many similarities in their characters. These stories really show that the gothic tradition has
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In the passage “There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him, as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!” (529) presents the devil as a supernatural element in the story. Young Goodman Brown consistently talks to the old man throughout the story and is the person who is perceived as the devil. In the passage “Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?” (536) shows that his meeting with the devil was all a dream though it was a dream it still changed his whole life. The Tell Tale Heart also has a sense of the supernatural. In passage three on line 14 “And this I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” (1128) shows the evil eye as the supernatural element of the story. This is the main cause that makes the narrator go crazy and kills the old man. It is very interesting comparing Young Goodman Brown and The Tell Tale Heart because it is very similar in the way that the supernatural is not real to both characters. Young Goodman Brown was dreaming and the narrator was delusional and
In the passage “There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him, as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!” (529) presents the devil as a supernatural element in the story. Young Goodman Brown consistently talks to the old man throughout the story and is the person who is perceived as the devil. In the passage “Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?” (536) shows that his meeting with the devil was all a dream though it was a dream it still changed his whole life. The Tell Tale Heart also has a sense of the supernatural. In passage three on line 14 “And this I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” (1128) shows the evil eye as the supernatural element of the story. This is the main cause that makes the narrator go crazy and kills the old man. It is very interesting comparing Young Goodman Brown and The Tell Tale Heart because it is very similar in the way that the supernatural is not real to both characters. Young Goodman Brown was dreaming and the narrator was delusional and