Jillian Johnson Professor Carl Miller English 1020 25 June 2011 Goodman Brown’s Loss of Innocence Since the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, the temptation of sin is what inevitably dictates people’s lives. In the allegorical story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he portrays man’s struggle with temptation through the use of the protagonist, Goodman Brown. Goodman Brown, looses his innocence while he travels deeper into the dark forest, and has an experience that forever left an impression on his life. Hawthorne relies on symbolism to overall portray the allegorical journey of the fall of man to sin. The story begins when Goodman Brown has to leave his beautiful wife, Faith, whose name is no accident, to go on a journey in the dark woods.
Soon after her fathers death Emily starts to date a much younger man who is in town to work on the sidewalks. His name is Homer Barron, and he is known to enjoy the company of men, but is not the marrying kind. The town is totally against the affair and tries to bring in Emily’s cousins to put an end to their relationship. Next, the story tells how Emily is finally seen outside her home buying rat poison. The town’s people think she is going to kill herself because Homer had put an end to their relationship.
In this story, Hester is convicted of committing adultery with the Reverend in her town, and is left to raise her new offspring by herself in the outskirts of her town. When Hester married Roger Chillingworth, she told him that she does not love him, but he still marries her because he loves her. The author of this work uses imagery in light of George Chbosky’s quote. Another example, is when Hester decides to stay close to her town where she committed adultery instead of leaving to another town to start over again. She makes this decision to remain close to her secret lover, Reverend Dimmesdale.
Throughout John Updike`s short story "A & P" the protagonist Sammy, a young 19 year old male, is constantly judging the cliental who walks into the grocery store, A& P. For example, when three girls walk into the store with nothing but their bathing suits; Sammy’s mind begins to be very active when he is judging the girls. As Sammy watched Quennie “buzz” over to her friends, it made his stomach (and who knows what else) rubs the inside of his apron (Updike 2). Sammy also observed the women in the store turn away when they noticed the girls almost as if they knew what would happen and were ashamed for young girls (Updike 2). At which point, Sammy views all the older, less attractive shoppers as “sheep” pushing their carts around in a herd, or as “house slaves in pin curlers” (Updike 2). Through the choice of words by the author in these references from the book, the reader is led to believe that women were generally portrayed as passive individuals, known to stay at home, cook for their husbands and care for the children while the men were active at work.
John Marsden shows the theme of leadership all throughout the book. When they came back from hell, a little clearing below quite a bit of bush in tailors stitch, they arrive at Ellie’s house only to find that her pets are dead and there is no one around. They find a fax at her house from her dad, he thought that something was going wrong at the showgrounds, and that’s when they concluded that they had been invaded. When it was dark, Ellie,
The women are kept in their domain, the kitchen, throughout the entire story because that is where men believed the women should be. When the county attorney asks the sheriff about any clues that could be in the kitchen he responds with “nothing here but kitchen things.” (p. 187) Although the sheriff claims to need the women’s assistance in finding clues, he completely dismisses the idea that the kitchen could hold any valuable information because it is a women’s place. When the women notice Mrs. Wright’s preserves have burst in the cabinet and then express sorrow for Mrs. Wright the men laugh, and the narrator zooms in on the division between men and women by telling
He thinks that the village should give him free firewood and he asked for the ownership of his house, something not normal for a first minister to do in those times. He discovered his own niece, Abigail, dancing in the woods and doing witchcraft. “Just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, yo compromise my very character”.-(pg9) This is a problem for him, if the rumor is spread and all the blame is thrown on Abigail, this will affect his reputation. He is the reverend, he should not permit any witchcraft inside his house. Later on in the play we realize that Abigail comes to be treated like a victim rather than a criminal.
(Hawthorne 237)” Mistress Hibbins is a lonely, widower that misses her husband and wants to be with him. For that reason she doesn’t try to appeal the charges laid against her for being a witch. She allows them to speculate about her and even plays it up a bit by referring to the Blackman. Like when she invites Hester to come and perform a ceremony with her, “Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one (Hawthorne Rubio 2 113).” She plays up this label usually applied to her so she can end her life soon and thus be with her Lord and beloved husband.
Goodman Brown: Recently married Puritan who lives in Salem in the 1600's. He believes in the goodness of the townspeople until he sees many of them attending a witches’ sabbath in the forest. Goodman is a title equivalent to Mister. Faith: Goodman Brown’s wife. The Devil Figure: Mysterious man who meets Goodman Brown in the forest and accompanies him part way to the witches’ sabbath, where Brown is to be inducted into an evil brotherhood.
So, he walks up to them and tells them that next time they decide to walk in they should cover their shoulders meaning be in appropriate attire but Sammy with a young mind thinks differently and thinks that anyone should be able to shop how ever they want in whatever attire. His fellow worker is also shocked at the manager’s attitude but does not show much attention also Sammy realized hat one of the girl’s named Quennie had also noticed her so he steps up and tells his manger that this is no way to talk to someone, takes off his apron and quits. Sammy is thinking to get attention from the girls while trying to look good but does not notice that the girls were too much into themselves and after being insulted they just walked right out. The manager saw them as not appropriately dressed girls who had just put a show for the whole store and tells Sammy that he is going to regret what he is doing but Sammy still walks out only to find himself left alone in the parking lot now in a worst condition for a stupid mistake. Sammy decided to quit in