Young Goodman Brown is a character in "Young Goodman Brown," who leaves his known world in Salem village and travels an unknown road in a dark forest in the middle of the night, a common motif in literature better known as the Hero's journey, and is faced withobstacles. ... He represents the previously unrecognized evil nature of Young Goodman Brown, possibly the devil himself. ... The abyss in "Young Goodman Brown" is when he sees his wife, Faith. ... Young Goodman Brown returns to his home the next morning as a new man. ... Even Young Goodman Brown's " dying hour was gloom" (pg. 10...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Young Goodman Brown," a Christian named Goodman Brown attempts to meet the devil by taking a trip into forest during the night. ... Hawthorne's story, "Young Goodman Brown," starts off with the protagonist Young Goodman Brown saying goodbye to his wife on the street in Salem Village outside their home. ... Hawthorne also chose the main characters name 'Young Goodman Brown', to symbolize the purity of young, good, men who are lured to give in into the evil world, an example of this is Young Goodman Brown trying to r...

• Word Count: 1921
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this short story "Young Goodman Brown,"" Nathaniel Hawthorne creates an image of innocence compromised in the face of the evil of the world. The way the story is presented leaves a question open as to whether Young Goodman Brown's experience was real or a vision. ... Throughout this paper Hawthorne's own life and Puritanical beliefs are exhibited in his novel "Young Goodman Brown."" ... In 1835, "Young Goodman Brown- was published, which was one of the early stories that he included in Twice-Told Tales. ... And here comes Goodman Brown. ...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I will be discussing Hawthorne's themes of sin, guilt and punishment in Young Goodman Brown; and how they affect Goodman Brown throughout the story. ... The first sign of guilt is evident when Goodman Brown first sets off on his journey. ... At the end of the story, the only one punished is Goodman Brown. ... (Adams, 165) A state of moral uncertainty is Goodman Brown's punishment. In conclusion, Hawthorne's themes of sin, guilt, and punishment affect young Goodman Brown throughout the story. ...

• Word Count: 1255
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Young Goodman Brown vs. ... In the story "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character, the innocent, pure, and love stricken Young Goodman Brown. ... Young Goodman Brown was well adapted to his community and was well known. ... The aspect of the culture that Young Goodman Brown does not like is how the villagers pretend to be good, yet they are really evil inside. ... Young Goodman Brown will never be able to respect these people in his community after he has discovered their true identity. ...

• Word Count: 2414
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The novel The Scarlet Letter, The Ministers Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown all unite upon this common thread. ... Goodman Brown is not evil in a traditional sense, but he still hides his transgression. ... This quote contrasts a situation found in Young Goodman Brown. ... Two places where this is expressed include the final paragraph of Young Goodman Brown and an instance found just a few pages into The Ministers Black Veil. ... His novels The Scarlet letter, and his short stories Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil all unite with similar themes as Hawthorne examines hu...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This quote has a direct irony in correlation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of "Young Goodman Brown". ... Young Goodman Brown is an upstanding man in the community. ... "Young" symbolizes his youth and immaturity. ... When the devil does appear, Goodman Brown seems almost to have been expecting him. ... Goodman Brown never finds out if Faith resisted evil, or if the ceremony was just a dream. ...

• Word Count: 1393
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The short story "Young Goodman Brown" was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835. ... It was startling to young Goodman Brown to see a woman outside at this time of night. ... The following quotation sums up Goodman Brown's overall astonishment. ... Young Goodman Brown cannot believe his eyes, he is stricken with bewilderment when the "blaze of the hell-kindled torches" reveals that "the wretched man beheld his Faith" (Hawthorne 295). ... The short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts how women are portrayed before and after they disconnect themselves from the be...

• Word Count: 1338
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The study of his family from the establishment of the Bay Colony to the Second Great Awakening of his own time parallels the issues brought forth in "Young Goodman Brown"(McCabe). Hawthorne sets "Young Goodman Brown" in somewhat of a context of Puritan rigidity and self-doubt to allow his contemporary readers to see the consequences of such a system of belief. ... As a Puritan Young Goodman Brown sought a true conversion experience (McCabe). ... Hawthorne portrayed this in the story of "Young Goodman Brown." ... "Young Goodman Brown." ...

• Word Count: 1442
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Benny Goodman (born Benjamin David Goodman) ws born and raised in a tenement in Chicago's Maxwell Street ghetto in 1909. ... It seemed that music was the destiny for young Benny Goodman, but tragedy in the family put Benny's music progression on hold. ... Benny Goodman and his band (all fifteen of them including Jess Stacy, Gordon Griffin, Hymie Schertzer, George Koenig, Allen Reuss, Vernon Brown, Red Ballard, Arthur Rollini, Babe Russin, Harry Goodman (on string bass) and Martha Tilton as vocalist made a name for themselves and while creating a sensation and a massive success that ...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8

In particular, Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" allows the writer to examine and perhaps provide commentary on not only the Salem of his own time but also the Salem of his ancestors. ... The study of his family from the establishment of the Bay Colony to the Second Great Awakening of his own time parallels the issues brought forth in "Young Goodman Brown"(McCabe). Hawthorne sets "Young Goodman Brown" in somewhat of a context of Puritan rigidity and self-doubt to allow his contemporary readers to see the consequences of such a system of belief. ... As a Puritan Young Goodman Brown soug...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In "The Birthmark" and "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne criticizes the Puritans' belief in the depravity of man to convey his notion that people are inherently flawed, so people must accept their own nature and others' flaws. ... Humanity's flawed nature also refers to people's spiritual imperfections and sins, which are clearly evident in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." Hawthorne begins by alluding to the belief in total depravity in this short story when Goodman Brown sees Goody Cloyse in the forest and is reminded of the Puritan cat...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Benito Cereno" can be compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" because the main character from both stories struggles to decipher the realities of good and evil. In short, Goodman Brown sets off on a journey through the forest, where he meets up with an older man with a walking stick that possesses supernatural powers. ... In the story, Goodman Brown has difficulty between believing in the goodness of these respectable townspeople and believing that they have close relations with the devil. ... It appears that both authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herm...

• Word Count: 1557
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This topic is prominent in several of his works, including "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," "Roger Malvin's Burial," "Young Goodman Brown," and "The Minister's Black Veil." ... In "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman Brown's quest is extremely different from the other quests previously observed. ... In contrast to the other characters in the other stories, Goodman Brown succeeds in his quest. ... Goodman Brown's life had been changed completely as a result of his quest. ... Goodman Brown almost successfully completed his quest, but the results were devastating to him and to tho...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Young Goodman Brown is another case. ... In the beginning of the story, you could tell that Goodman Brown loved his wife Faith very much. ... By the end of the story, Goodman Brown is still not sure whether what he saw was a dream or whether he really witnessed the "witch meeting" in the forest but out of fear, he distances himself from Faith and starts to distrust her. ... Also, in Young Goodman Brown, when he said "My Faith is Gone!" ...

• Word Count: 1268
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

cried Goodman Gray (Hawthorne 1281). ... The black veil is " now an appropriate emblem- at the funeral of a young lady (Hawthorne 1283). ... He further shows drama in the unfortunate incidence of a young girl's funeral. ... Also, in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown- the protagonist Mr. Brown sees society as evil and chooses to detach himself from the society. ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story, "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the witch Goody Cloyse, is recorded saying that her broomstick "hath strangely disappeared". ... Their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. ...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. ... Benny Goodman dragged the frightened singer to her first studio session. ... DuBois, who also wrote The Souls of Black Folk, young Langston's favorite book. ... Subjects included Harriet Tubman, john Brown, Fredrick Douglas, and Toussaint L"Ovuverture. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She even claimed that the nuns at the school forced her to sleep next to the body of young girl who had died in order to teach her lesson. ... One night Billie was singing in a club when John Hammond, a young record producer came and heard her singing. ... Because he was impressed and blown away by her singing he introduced her to Benny Goodman who then gave Billie, eighteen at the time, her first records "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" and "Riffin' the Scotch," the latter being her first hit. Because of her unique expressive and sorrowful and melonchiily singing style, she also got an op...

• Word Count: 2313
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School