Benny Goodman

How is the devil depicted in both works as a person? The chief devil sometimes referred to as serpent, Satan (Shaitan, Iblis), or beast appears frequently as a character in works of literature and popular culture. In religions such as Christianity and Islam, the figure of the devil, Satan personifies evil. From all the myths, beliefs and creations of literature, the devil has exercised the vigorous attraction upon the human mind. The imagination of man from the earliest ages of times…

Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and James Joyce’s “Araby”, the main characters within these short stories both come to this type of realization, and the effects of this can be seen in how their behavior and their outlook on life alters. In the beginning of both writings, the characters are living seemingly normal, happy lives, but by the end, both characters have adopted a more gloomy existence. The way in which a sad realization affects the individuals in “Araby” and “Young Goodman Brown” are…

morals. This is revealed in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s piece, “Young Goodman Brown.” The main character travels down an evil path with the devil, allowing the temptation to overrule his morals. Hawthorne portrays Goodman Brown as dishonest, hypocritical, demonic, gullible, and frightened. This allows readers to grasp the idea of human imperfection and the fact that most individuals fall to evil temptation. At the beginning of the story, Goodman Brown introduces the theme by stating a lie. After his…

The opening scene of any well-written story is always intriguing, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1835) opening for “Young Goodman Brown” does not disappoint, expertly setting the stage for the rest of the tale. “Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village,” he writes, immediately evoking the scene of a puritan village, bathed in the pink and orange light of the setting sun. The fading light will become all too symbolic as the young man’s journey continues; as the…

The comparison between two sermons The short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" starts, in the same way as other different stories by Hawthorne, with an untainted scene in a Puritan group—this time in Salem Massachusetts, the site of the notorious witch trials. "Youthful Goodman Brown" opens with the title character leaving his home and his wonderful and "celestial" wife of three months named Faith—a beautiful lady wearing pink strips to go on an excursion in spite of the fact…

Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” told the story of a young man 's adventure down a dark path tainted by evil. Throughout the story, Brown slowly turned down his faith to accept the devil’s ways. Each event that happened in the story displayed Goodman Brown’s corruption and how it leads to his rejection of God. Brown showed his corruption through the start of his journey, events that happen in the woods and his life afterwards. The first person Goodman Brown meets is his wife faith…

To a child, a forest is a place where they can explore and let their imagination run free without parental interference, but the Puritan culture of the 1600s portrayed the forest as the devils playground where people go, only to bring evil back to their supposed perfect society. Nathaniel Hawthorne displays the clash between these conflicting perspectives in his book The Scarlet Letter (1850). The story is set in seventeenth-century Boston that is surrounded by wilderness, as most American…

Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne reject the central tenets of the early nineteenth century movement known as Transcendentalism in their works, The Fall of the House of Usher and Young Goodman Brown, respectively. Transcendentalism was a reaction to the focus on logic in the Enlightenment period of literature and centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson writings, which would be known as part of the Romanticism period. The movement was embodied by the optimistic belief that people and nature are…

part of culture, constitute culture, include and transcend culture, be influenced by culture, shape culture, or interact with culture by influencing cognitions, emotions, and actions (Saroglou 1309-1310). Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, gives many examples of how a religiously influenced culture can affect an individual 's actions. If the story were to have taken place in the 21st century, the outcome would have been much different…

Discovering the truth does not always lead to happiness; this is the case in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”. The main character, a young loyal newlywed, is guided on a journey of evil intent that tests his faith. Hawthorne pushes Goodman Brown through trials and into discovering truths that change his beliefs, but Brown must let go of his old beliefs in order to let in new ones. Characters such as Faith, the Stranger, Goody Cloyse, Deacon Gookin and the Minister represent the…