Benny Goodman

In "Young Goodman Brown" there are plenty of symbols in the story. The three symbols that stood out to me are The Dark Forest, His Faith, and The Devil. The Dark Forest to the puritans was a place for sin, and where The Devil goes to make his deals. When Goodman Brown went on his trip he had to go through the woods which he describes " Dreary road of darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barley stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind"…

of how you want to believe the world actually is. In the works Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut, one focusing on the evils of perceptive religion and the other focuses on the evils of the idea of a perfect political systems. The author’s contrasts society’s views of the worlds created to the perceptive of the how the main character react to the worlds. Young Goodman Brown is naive to the fact of there being evils in the idea world…

"Youthful Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O 'Connor both have characters who permit their lives to be changed by the risk of malice. An alternate route taken wreaks devastation on the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" though, the wrong way taken in "Youthful Goodman Brown" leads Brown to lose hope. Chestnut and the Grandmother have distinctive states of mind and take separate methodologies toward wickedness. On the other hand, they both in…

looked upon the earth and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth” (KJV). Consequently, the pull that seems to be within humankind, offers a base for the works of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “Young Goodman Brown” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” In considering the theme, the idea evident in literary writings, upon which Hawthorne based his piece, one may find themselves seeing…

How this character appears varies from story to story. Some show the Devil as a red man with horns, others as a normal person.“Young Goodman Brown”, which portrays the Devil as the later, is about how everyone is sinful, while “The Man in the Black Suit”, which portrays the Devil as more of the former, is about how the Devil comes for us all. While both “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Man in the Black Suit” show the danger of Devil like figures, they both have different risks involved,…

It all starts out dark…so dark that I couldn’t tell if my eyes are open or even closed. Before the sun comes up, it is so peaceful and quiet that I would be able to hear a pin drop from afar. This is just the start of a long sit in the woods to try and harvest a deer. Sitting in a tree stand for hours at a time with nothing but myself and the nature around me just waiting for a single moment to shoot my shot at a deer. As time goes by I begin to wonder if today is going to be my lucky day or not…

“...each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest, a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it… the love for John Thornton drew him back to the fire again.: This compelling passage significantly impacts the perspective of the story. This quote from the story takes place after Thornton rescues Buck from Hal’s mistreatment with…

Young Goodman Brown decides to go in to the woods because it seems that he has an important errand to run. Brown has been married to his wife, Faith for three months now but leaves her at the house for his journey. His wife seems to be very concerned for Brown as she cried, “Pr’y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afeard of herself, sometimes.” Brown assures to his wife that he will…

1. (a) The Devil offers Tom Walker Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) Tom first refused because he wanted to talk with his wife about it first. 2. (a) Tom’s wife disappears in the forest and later on Tom finds her apron with a heart and a liver in it. (b) You can learn Tom did not care for his wife and was very much pleased with the loss of his wife. 3. (a) Tom agrees to become an usher for the Devil if he got Kidd the pirate’s booty. (b) As the story progress, Tom starts to go to church and carries…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the protagonist Goodman Brown stumbles upon evil incarnate, the Devil himself. Throughout his journey in the forest with the devil, Young Goodman Brown had discovered a disheartening truth about his fellow townspeople. This truth would forever change Young Goodman Brown’s (and the audience’s) perspective of others. To begin with, Young Goodman Brown discovers the devil in the forest just outside of the town of Salem. However, even though the devil…