Andrew Goodman

In life a common want is to fit in so the idea of not fitting in and being exiled is intriguing to think about. In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin that scenario plays out. The exilation of characters enhances a story by simultaneously alienating and enriching them, strangely compelling the readers to read on. Exile can be caused by an endless amount of reasons, but, the removal of an individual itself can be caused by either those with power over an…

Hawthorne literary work “Young Goodman Brown” ¬ and O’Connor’s “A Goodman is Hard to Find” depict two different tales revolving around religions good versus evil. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown”, we are introduced to a character who willingly takes part in devilish acts, and attempts to use his wife faith as a tether to pull him back into the graces of god. Whilst in a good man is hard to find we encounter a grandmother who portrays herself as a lady which she is not. They both when…

One of those instances can be found when I describe the character’s name: “there is “Goodman”, which can be interpreted as being pure like children are often said to be, without having the life experiences to corrupt them.” In this case I made the argument that the character is childlike. I was able to use his name as a small detail to back up my argument. The idea that Young Goodman Brown is a child that is growing up is something that would not appear to be the case at first glance;…

time. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is an account of a holy man going through the forest, on a journey. For instance, Faith, Brown’s wife, is used as a metaphor to represent his struggle for his spiritual faith. Revelation by Flannery O 'Connor is a work that, primarily, focuses…

and the “Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories. Events in the Young Goodman Brown took…

Number Three, A Commentary The other night I had this dream: I was walking slowly through a forest, and I was completely alone. This forest was covered in a thick, deep, emerald blanket of moss which, naturally, felt like velvet on the bottoms of my bare feet. I took in my surroundings and noticed that I was in the company of the most gargantuan, towering trees ones imagination could ever fathom. Their bark paraded around each trunk as if its only job was to absorb every foreign sound and…

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…

1. In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”, the man character, Goodman Brown, comes across a strange traveler whom he encounters in the woods late one evening. This man turns out to be the devil. Hawthorn’s description of the strange traveler’s staff, which “bore the likeness of a great black snake” (Hawthorn 94), foreshadows the identity of the man Goodman Brown is meeting. Furthermore, the Devil’s identity is fully revealed by Goody Cloyse, who screams his name after she is…

Through two different journeys, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Araby” by James Joyce, we see messages expressed through the use of symbolism. Symbolism is used as “a substitute for the elements being signified” and they allow authors to provide a more meaningful message than a mere description could (332). In “Young Goodman Brown” and “Araby” we see similarities in the use of symbolism to explore questions about religious faith and the protagonists’ search for answers; but…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s roots in Salem, Massachusetts and in the Puritan religion provide the perfect context for his thought-provoking short story, “Young Goodman Brown”. The tale of a pious, Puritan man struggling with the temptation of sin and religious doubt offers the reader an inside look upon the thematic concerns Hawthorne presents in many of his works: loss of innocence and faith, secret guilt, and human depravity. In a thinly veiled critique of the Puritan religion, Hawthorne utilizes…