Benny Goodman

The two short stories I chose to compare are “The Rocking Horse Winner” and “Young Goodman Brown”. “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by D.H. Lawrence and “Young Goodman Brown” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In “The Rocking Horse Winner” the main conflict of the story is that Paul’s and his parents are struggling mightily with their economic situation. The story is about a family that consists of a father and mother, a son named Paul and his two sisters. Paul is always curious about…

by future generations, Hawthorne used this talent in a variety of short stories and novels. One masterpiece in particular is the short story “Young Goodman Brown”. In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, there is a force of self-righteousness at work so strong that it disturbs the equipoise of nature; furthermore, throughout…

knowledge and the evil associated with it. Nathaniel Hawthorne 's classic short story “Young Goodman Brown” and Sandra Day O 'Connor 's work “A Good Man is Hard to Find” each explore a scenario in which an individual who has lived a life in ignorance is suddenly granted knowledge by a mysterious figure of evil. Both stories possess elements of allegory…

inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown, published almost two hundred years later. The short story follows the journey of Young Goodman Brown as he embarks on a night of devil worship before he settles into the Puritan lifestyle that his village leads, a town where, “We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness” (pg). It quickly…

devil was portrayed as a man with an evil personality. Although he was likeable , he was pure evil. Goodman saw this but everything he did did not help his situation. After his encounter he was changed for the rest of his…

Take Me to Church In Nathaniel’s Hawthorn’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, directs us that Hawthorn intended this to be an allegory. When pulling out and emphasizing on the main ideas, American religion and hypocrisy is pulled out. Behind this idea, curiosity plays a major role in Goodman’s actions which is followed by the effects and Goodman’s mental state. I believe this is an absolute perfect example of psychological explotation of paranoia that is exposed by the usage of symbolism,…

Throughout all of American Literature, authors have used different techniques to relay a message to the reader, one way being by depicting how the community’s influence on the protagonist shapes the protagonists’ development. In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, authors Hawthorne and Miller, respectively, use the social norms in Puritan society to express a common theme by portraying the positive and negative moral changes in characters. In Puritan society, individuals believed they were…

Rachel Hawthorne once said, “Deception might give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away at the end”. In the book The Canterbury Tales, “The Friar’s tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer talks about how evilness shall be punished and shall be put to justice at the end.It’s about a friar telling a tale about a summoner who meets his fate in the woods after a run-in with a devil pretending to be a bailiff/ a yeoman. The personality and description of the friar are reflected amongst…

Chapter 5 – Oldest Lawyer’s trick “There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results (Lee, 61) When Miss Maudie says this she’s talking about Nathan Radley and all other foot-washing Baptists who think of pleasure as a sin. Maudie says earlier in the chapter that some “foot-washers” told her and her flowers they were going to go for hell, for not spending enough time…

their story. Each three authors use metaphors throughout their stories to give the reader a better sense of each theme. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials in the 1600s. Goodman Brown is married to a woman by the name of Faith, and they are both Puritans. One day, Goodman Brown decides…