Evil YGB and The Lottery

In "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery", both of these short stories use symbols of names as marks of evil. In "Young Goodman Brown", Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the names Faith and Young Goodman Brown as the sign of nice, and respectable people. In "The Lottery", Jackson uses the name Mr. Summers as a symbol of Summer when the lottery was held. In "Young Goodman Brown", Faith is used to express a religious and faithful person to her Christianity as implied in the short story. "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named" (187). Young Goodman Brown uses Faith's name as a protectant of his soul and body. He uses Faith's name to resolve moments with the Devil, to strengthen him. In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses the name Mr. Graves as a symbol or sign of death. Mr. Graves runs the Lotte

ry throughout the short story. Mr. Graves is the symbol of killing in the lottery. Even though Mr. Summers ran the lottery, Mr. Graves had say over him. In "Young Goodman Brown", Young Goodman Brown is expressed as a Young, good faithful man. He loves his wife, Faith. "My love and my Faith" (187). In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses the name Hutchinson as a symbol of a hutch, sort of like a box. Through the sumbolism of the name, when she picked the black dot out of the box, we knew that it was going to happen. These types of Symbolism represent evil in a way.

In "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery", we have found that "evil lurking behind a genteel or reassuring surface" is shown in three ways: Symbolism of Names, Objects, and Acts. These three ways help us figure out the types of evils in the story and help us understand what is going on. Thinking someone is something that there not is around us each adn everyday. You might not even know that your bestfriend is someone totally different than you think. Someday you will realize ths evil. These stories overall put a big impact on me. I have now learned that someone can seem like they are something that they really are not. I especially liked "The Lottery" because there was alot of evil in mankind in that story. Some of the stuff that happened in that story could happen in our daily lives.

In these two stories, we will talk last about the symbolism through Objects in these two stories. In "Young Goodman Brown", the cane is mentione

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