Young Goodman Brown

The two short stories "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 modified by the risk of evil. An alternate route taken by the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" wreaks ruin, while the wrong way taken by "Young Goodman Brown" leads him to give up. Albeit Brown, The Misfit, and the Grandmother have assorted mindsets and take unmistakable approaches to manage pernicious, all characters…

the recent discussions of the intentions of lies, an issue has arisen about the selfishness of lies. On one hand, some argue that lies which are created with the feelings of others in mind are never selfish. On the other hand, others argue that all lies are based on selfish needs. They claim that every lie, no matter how small, is created from the selfish nature of people that want to better themselves. In short, the issue is whether lies can ever assist others. My own view is that there is no…

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…

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…

Along with “Fences”, many other texts also show manipulation occurring from grudges, revenge and feuds. In the short story “The Interlopers” by Saki, two characters, Ulrich and Georg had bitterness over the judgement of a piece of forest land in the Carpathians and who it had belonged too. One evening, the two men had met in the forest in a treacherous storm and a huge tree had feel upon them and crushed them. While being stuck, they both debated on how both their men would find them first, save…

The village of Sleepy Hollow was dark and gloomy. A crow is perched on the sign waiting for it’s prey to wander the dark streets.The street was so foggy one couldn’t see across the empty streets of the village.Off in the you could see a figure of a man on a horse.Who is this man on this horse? Brom Bones is a man in the village of Sleepy Hollow who wants to marry this beautiful girl named Katrina VanTassell. Brom Bones has one major obstacle in his way. The obstacle is Ichabod Crane a school…

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) Waiting for Godot is a play about two men seeking for hope and salvation, Vladimir and Estragon. In a country road (Beckett,1) with a single tree on a hill, they patiently waited aimlessly for someone whose arrival is uncertain, Godot. This play falls under tragedy and comedy. Tragic, in a sense that they are hoping for a day that Godot might come but all that is happening to them are just repeated incidence of the past days, and comedy because there are…

“A country road. A tree. Evening.” These stage directions preface Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot.” In the play, two men meet on this sparse, forlorn stage and attempt to make sense of their obscure world through encounters with mysterious characters and the prospects of finding purpose upon the arrival of a character they call Godot. The two men, Estragon and Vladimir, experience very little action or significant adventure in regards to the plot. Still, Beckett, regarded by some…

Anthem by Ayn Rand is written as the journal of Equality 7-2521. Equality 7-2521 lives in a society where Individuality does not exist and differences are evil. He has been taught since he was a child, “… If you are not needed by your brother men, there is no reason for you to burden the earth with your bodies” (Rand 22). Equality has been cursed since birth because he is smarter and taller than his brothers (Rand 21). Because he enjoys science, and wants to be assigned to the Home of the…