Benny Goodman

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…

Isra Tanveer Professor Loubser English 1302 4 October 2017 A Sinful Heart In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown,” the narrator illustrates Brown’s corruptibility through his rejection of the good and unambiguous submission to the evil. This gothic romanticism reveals a young man of Puritan faith who goes on a journey that depicts the cant nature of the people living in the Salem village. The pilgrimage allows him to learn about the malevolence that lies in his towns’ history…

Nightmare in the Woods Charlotte I don’t know what I did wrong. I don’t know how I got here. All I know is that the darkness is coming closer. I can feel the cold dampness of the ground underneath me. The chill of the earth against my temple helped cool the raging pain in my head. I could only glimpse the faint outline of the towering trees. It was definitely dark out. So where was the light coming from? My eyelids felt too heavy to keep open anymore. My eyes fluttered open for the last time to…

In The Scarlet Letter, there are many symbols and themes. One of these themes is good vs. evil. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses plant imagery to illustrate his theme of good vs. evil. The Scarlet Letter contains evil elements such as betrayal and deceit, but it also contains good elements such as free spirit and positivity. Hawthorne uses weeds to illustrate the betrayal and deceit found in The Scarlet Letter. When Chillingworth finds black weeds on an unmarked grave, he says that they must have…

In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author applies direct and indirect characterization of faith to reveal the idea that even the purest and most innocent can struggle with faith. Hawthorne shows the reader that faith is a gentle and corruptible thing that all people must fight for in their lives. First of all, Hawthorne characterizes Faith as a person who is innocent, pure, and faithful. As the story develops we begin to understand that Faith is an ideological…

The loss of Goodman Brown’s marriage to his wife, the aptly named Faith caused him to lose two things at once..Goodman Brown and his wife Faith have been married for three months and this shows that Goodman Brown lacks a deep attachment to Faith. This resembles the willingness to stray from his wife to embark on his evening journey. Although Goodman Brown knows what lies ahead of him on his journey into the woods ,is not good he see’s this momentary dabbling in the dark side as a one time…

In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Ernest Hemingway describes the main character accepting death with no way of escaping an infection while traveling in the safari. Harry Street is hesitant to find help and wants to peacefully pass time in a graceful manner. The man blames his wife for his own mistakes, but realizes that he is at fault for his stubbornness to what is happening to him. Ernest Hemingway portrays the woman’s importance as a significant motivation to encourage Harry to never admit…