Sunday, May 17, 2020

Similarities Between Young Goodman Brown And Bartleby The...

The Prejudices of â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† and â€Å"Bartleby the Scrivener† The story of â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† by Nathaniel Hawthorne occurs in the 1600’s and takes place in Salem, a town located in the northeastern side of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that was established by the Puritan settlers. â€Å"Bartleby the Scrivener†, by Herman Melville, is set in New York in 1853 in a law office staffed with peculiar men. Both stories have some prejudice aspects. The definition of prejudice is â€Å"preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience† (â€Å"Prejudice†). In â€Å"Young Goodman Brown the issues of prejudice center around the preconceived ideas of evil and witches. â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† is allegorical because it is about a man†¦show more content†¦Hawthorne relates his own experience to share the life of Brown, and he also uses internal conflict to explore Young Goodma n Brown’s identity crisis. In the beginning there was a conflict between the husband and wife. There is a slight argument between the husband and wife as Faith worries of danger and does not want Young Goodman Brown to leave her during the night, and this causes the distance between them. It then escalates into a problem between the good and wicked in the world when Young Goodman Brown meets the devil in the forest. â€Å"Young Goodman Brown† is lodged on the belief of corruption since the descent of man in the Garden of Eden after deviating against God, man has been led on the pathway of sin and wretchedness. This is a major theme as illustrated in the story as an allegory in that man is presented in the image of sin and of a polluted heart. Allegory is used by the presence of a man who ‘resembles himself in all aspects and that he carries a black serpent-shaped staff† (Melville). This is a suggestion of evil in that the darkness of the serpent and the staff are used to explain evil and the powers behind evil. He accepts the staff made specially for him by his â€Å"replica,† which allows him to hover around. In addition, the literature uses imagery in that the name Young Goodman Brown is used to indicate the innocence and naivety. On the other hand, the name Goodman is used to illustrate the

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