Allegory

‘Young Goodman Brown’ by Nathaniel Hawthorn explores the significance of the cultural society. Nathaniel Hawthorn wanted to distance himself from idea of Puritanism and created his own philosophy. Salem is a common topic for Hawthorns’ works; in Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to go on a spiritual journey towards self-scrutiny. Faith does not wish for him to leave but he tells her to stay and say her prayers. Brown is left feeling guilty and doubtful, but ventures on into the forest.…

The “Birthmark”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an allegory, like many other short stories and novels Hawthorne has wrote. The short story’s allegorical meanings are acquired from Hawthorne’s use of symbolism. In the “Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses the characters, foreshadowing, and symbolism to display the message or theme of obsession with perfection and imperfection, confliction with science and nature, and dabbling with fate. According to the text, The Norton Introduction to Literature,…

Civilizations contain many aspects that govern the fate of them. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding, using allegory, establishes a microcosm with several aspects that correlate to those of civilization. On a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, several British schoolboys crash-land. Through the use of the stranded, unchaperoned boys, he shows how the presences of these aspects affect civilization. He brilliantly uses simple objects such as the conch, the glasses, and the fire to illustrate…

and the biguns. The littluns represent the common people while the biguns represent the government. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies on a literal level as well as a figurative level. The littluns are an example of William Golding’s use of allegory: The littluns represent the common people in our society. The littluns are easily manipulated by the biguns; They take advantage of their fear. The littluns feared an imaginary creature they called the Beastie. They would often talk about it…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories have been passed down through almost two centuries of audiences. Specializing in a style of dark romanticism, Hawthorne left many critics grasping for answers about the core meaning behind his eerie tales. Piercing through the veil of darkness, guilt, and sin, peculiar similarities begin to provide answers to the cornerstone of Hawthorne’s writing. Stories such as Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil connect the dots comprised of darkness, guilt, and…

of the Flies - Short Book Summary by Yousef Awadh Al Shammari 11b1 William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, tells us a story about human behavior created by a pseudo-society, or a false society formed by a group of boys. This story is an allegory which is a story where characters are symbols of real life human behavior. Each character in this story symbolizes something in real life. William believed that no one can control the evil inside every person. There are several outstanding…

Maturity is not measured by age, but through experiences and attitude developed from those experiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne, known for the use of sin, guilt, and consciousness, warns in “Young Goodman Brown” the long-term effects of temptation and the dark effects growing up under Puritan faith can have on an individual. Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals Young Goodman Brown’s (YGB’s) immaturity and stubbornness using religious temptations during Brown’s journey through the forest. Hawthorne uses…

The Hidden Meaning in Everything Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story of “Young Goodman Brown” is a dark tale written in the form of an allegory. To understand this short story, one must assume everything has a hidden meaning. On the surface, this story is about a man who ventures into the woods outside his village where he encounters a pagan ritual. Upon close reading, one discovers the story has a deeper purpose—its examination of religious beliefs. “Young Goodman Brown” symbolizes…

Flies after he came back from World War I. He was greatly affected by the things he experienced in the war, and related these acts to a survival situation. He had learned how quickly people can snap and become someone they are not. The novel is an allegory for the hardships and conflicts he had to deal with during the war. This novel is filled with examples of survival in this novel such as surviving on the island or Piggy trying to overcome his physical disabilities. Although there are many…

blackness in the story through the innate goodness of man, deception, and faith. Meaning that, through his naïve goodness, Goodman Brown was blind to thinking anyone would deceive him, which ultimately led to his faltering of faith. This was merely an allegory of the human struggle between good and evil. What can be drawn from this meaning of “Young Goodman Brown”, is that even when people are good on the inside, and people who they love are deceiving them, that person will too be consumed after…