Romanticism In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Night and darkness are both heavily involved in the overall mood of the atmosphere in “Young Goodman Brown.” The farther away he gets from his faith and the closer he gets to the ceremony the darker the surroundings get. Then once at the location of the ceremony there are pine trees surrounding the altar. Pine trees are dark green and provide shade from even the moonlight. Around the altar is the darkest and most evil spot in the whole forest and story.

The traveler had easily led Brown by the nose. At the end of the story, Brown had turned depressed, after he had seen the worst scene he had ever seen in his life, which cause all his beliefs to be overturned in one night. Brown could have go and investigate what had happened last night, or leave the village he lived, but among all the options he could choose from, he decided to live the rest of his life in despair, this shows Brown’s incapability of dealing incidents that came out

In “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne aligns wilderness with a malevolent nature that characterizes both human and non-human life. In contrast to tropes of civilization as a force that combats and subjugates the wilderness, Hawthorne presents the possibility that ideas of an inherently evil nature are pervasive and insurmountable. At the end of the tale, despite Goodman Brown’s denunciation of the demonic mass that is held in the woods, he is never able to repress the wilderness and perceived natural tendency towards evil that subtends pious Puritan existence. Instead, “Young Goodman Brown” offers an ambiguous perspective on the piety of civilization and the evil of wilderness, and casts skepticism on the possibility of knowing which

The reader is initially introduced to the dual symbolism of the forest in Young Goodman

Web. 2 May. 2012. The research of “Young Goodman Brown,” explains the various images found in Young Goodman Brown. Some of them clarifies the author criticisms are the Salem Village, the pink ribbons on Faith’s hat, the fellow traveler, the staff, and using of the term “faith”, and the forest.

In the text, “Young Goodman Brown”, Brown’s gloom and withdrawal is justified by the shocking events in the forest. This is because, during his time in the forest, be bears witness to supernatural events in which he sees that many people he knows from the path of god are in reality on the path of the devil. For Brown to be justified in his feelings, the events in question must be deemed events that were real. To start, when Brown first exited the woods after witnessing the ritual, he heard Deacon Gookin, a man at the ritual, praying.

This talk of devilish acts from people known to Goodman Brown as holier than all causes Goodman Brown great pain and confusion even to the point where he was “ready to sink down on the ground, faint and overburdened” from what he had just witnessed (5). In the short time from when Goodman Brown enters the forest, sees Goody Cloyse, and sees the minister and the deacon, his entire life and upbringing is

“Young Goodman Brown” is about a negative rebirth of a devout, religious man into a dark, mistrustful man. Young Goodman Brown is a moral Christian man that values his faith above all else, but by the end of the story he has been reborn into an angry, sad husk of the man he was. He can no longer practice his faith or attend church after what he experienced in the woods. He is forever changed because “he cannot remove the doubt of universal evil from his mind.” (Walsh, Thomas F., Jr.) “Cathedral” is about the positive rebirth of a narrow-minded man into one that is glad for change and has his eyes opened.

Most of what Robert Frost writes has the theme of nature, but he is not trying to tell the readers how nature works. The rural scenes and landscapes are used to illustrate a psychological struggle with everyday experience meet with courage and will. Many different emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, and loneliness can be related to a different aspect of nature. Frost shows his theme of nature in most of his poems but especially in, “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening.” Robert Frost uses the theme of nature to better help the readers understand the meanings of life.

Various themes take place within short stories including “Young Goodman Brown,” which helps readers understand the analysis of stories. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” people are able to analyze different, themes, characteristics, and many other parts. Throughout “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown helps readers understand the true definition of fragility against human nature and how one culture or belief may impact a person. Thus, analyzing the themes throughout the short story is simple to pick out but so complex in understanding the perception of it.

Nature helps heal the characters in this story when they are struggling. Midway through the story Victor finds himself on a boat by himself listening to the peaceful sounds of nature. “I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly…” (Shelley, 62) Shelley uses characterization to help nature be a source of healing and comfort. Victor goes to the mountains to clear his mind and help him with his sorrow.

In the story “Young Goodman Brown”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown faces a spiritual dilemma. This is the story of one young man’s hallucinogenic journey through the woods. Whether or not this was a dream or reality, finding out the devastating true nature about the holy community he was raised in, him being misinformed about the members of his family, or the continuous struggle to hold on to his fault; this journey will have crippling effects on the rest of his life. Young Goodman Brown’s seemly holy community turns out to be the exact opposite.

Love Relationship: Hawthorne portrayed love relationship in ‘Young Goodman Brown’ as conjugal love relation between husband and wife when Young Goodman departed for his journey leaving behind his newly

Question No. 3 Answer: The narrator ponders whether Goodman Brown 's night in the forest could have all been a fantasy, however says that even on the off chance that it wasn 't genuine, it destroyed Goodman Brown 's life. He wound up afraid and doubtful of everyone around him. In spite of the fact that Goodman Brown kept on going to chapel and tune in to the minister, he would turn pale and feared that the congregation, the evil minister, and his listening ward would all be crushed.

Question 2: In Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown”, does it matter whether or not the protagonist, Goodman Brown, Dreamt the events in the story? Introduction Hawthorne‘s “Young Goodman Brown” (YGB) is such a richly layered, compelling and compact masterpiece that lends itself to multiple interpretations and dimensions of meaning when read with different approaches. It is all at once: a satirical allegory, a gothic story, a psychological investigation of Hawthorne’s own mind, a historical treatise of American Puritanism, a feminist record of woman’s plight in Puritan Times, a condensed dispensation of Hawthorne’s philosophical and religious beliefs and also a vent for his own personal catharsis.