Essay On Symbolism In Young Goodman Brown And The Raven

The two text Young Goodman Brown and The Raven were very interesting to read. I cannot choose which my favor is since I enjoyed both. The symbolizations that are in both text give the stories meanings behind the words. With these meanings, it helps opens the text to a broader view.
Nathaniel Hawthorne has a few different symbols throughout his text Young Goodman Brown that were both objects and people. Faith, Young Goodman Brown’s wife name is a symbol of her personality. “Faith, as the wife was aptly named,” (Brown 619) is emblematic to her nature. A symbol that is used more than once would be the pink ribbon. “…thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap,” (Brown 620). Faith has a connection to the pink ribbon because the ribbon is a symbol of purity and innocence, which she was. The ribbon comes up again in the story, but when it comes up again it is not for any good reason. “But something fluttered lightly down

The narrator talks about Lenore, but does not say who she is. Since there is no detail in who she is, there is a possibility that she is a symbol of some kind. He says she is, “rare and radiant” (11). What could he mean by this? There are a few things that one can assume this means when he or she hears that phrase. For example, it could be the beauty, hope, or maybe even the light within an individual. Whomever Lenore maybe, she must have meant a great deal to the narrator because he truly misses her. Another symbol that is used was December. “I remember it was in the bleak December, / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” (7-8). December is the symbol of death because it is winter and there is no life in the winter. The Raven is a symbol itself and one may see it as darkness or even death. The Raven as the poem and not the bird may also be about, his failure of outcomes as a