Lotery death of a salesman
Lotery death of a salesmanThe Lottery / Young Goodman Brown
The two short essays written by Jackson and Hawthorne are both thought provoking and full of evil. Many symbols are used to help develop the themes of both stories. The authors unveil the stories in such a way that you really don't know what the outcomes are going to be, but you do know that they will involve insights into morality - of both the main characters and the societies in which they live. Hopefully, by discussing the two short stories, their differences and similarities will be thoroughly explained.
From the very beginning, "Young Goodman Brown" has a sense of apprehension about the ominous journey the title character is about to undertake. Even when he departed from his wife Faith, it made me feel as though something regrettable was about to take place. I guess that was Hawthorn's first clue to the reader that there was something out of the ordinary ahead. Young Goodman Brown is venturing into the woods to meet with the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith in God with his wife. He resolves that when he returns, he will "cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven.
The first real sign of evil is when he met up with the man (Devil) in the woods. The man was carrying a shaft. The shaft was dark and appeared to have serpents rapping around it. The man's staff eventually leads Goodman Brown to the Devil's ceremony, which destroys Goodman Brown's faith in his fellow man.
Upon meeting the Devil in the woods Young Goodman Brown almost immediately stated that he did not want to continue this journey with the devil. He said he was from good people and that his dad or grandfather would have never done anything like the Devil was trying to get him to do. The Devil came right back and told him of when his dad and grandfather were flogging a woman, or burning an Indian village.
When Goodman Brown's first excuse not to carry on with the errand proves to be unconvincing, he says he can't go because of his wife, "Faith". And because of her, he cannot carry out the errand any further. At this point the Devil agrees with him and tells him to turn back to avoid that "Faith should come to any harm"
During Young Goodman Brown's journey through the wood he came across a familiar old woman he'd learned from. His faith is harmed because the woman on the path is the woman who "taught him his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser." The Devil and the woman talk and afterward, Brown continues to walk on with the Devil in the disbelief of...
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