In comparison of The Lottery and The Most Dangerous Game both Connell and Jackson convey to the readers that man is inherently evil and that choices made based on societal standards, traditions, and learned behavior may not be the morally correct choice. This confirms the passage of Scripture from Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (KJV) The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson share a common theme which is showing the darker side of humans, that humans possess evil tendencies and that the morals of people can be corrupted. Connell and Jackson show us that injustice and cruelty in society can be accepted as a normal behavior. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has an unknown
The black man likes to hang out in the woods leaving him to be even more judged as satan because the forest is unknown and evil. Durning this the thought is provoked, that is exactly what Hawthorne is trying to do by adding all of this symbolism into his writing. He adds more into his writing such as the
It means that the writer should work his or her information from general to specific; and it is true for this essay, because as we can see the general idea, being how people enjoy “mystery stories”, is brought up right in the beginning and then the writer makes his way to the specific, being why he believes Agatha Christie appeals the most by listing his reasons, “strong characters, her interesting settings, and her strong morality.” The body of the essay is well-written. He explores his points in the same order that came in the thesis statement. First, he explains Agatha Christie’s characters in the body paragraph 1; in the second body paragraph, he gives examples of her interesting settings and in the last body paragraph, he gives his opinion on Agatha Christie’s morality. Also, the writer has put enough detail and examples to support each of his points. Lastly the conclusion is well-done.
In “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, warn their readers that evil uses deception to bring harm to the innocent. To convey this theme, Hawthorne and Poe use similar characters and tropology. Both authors use similar characters to make a vivid distinction between the innocent and the evil. They also use symbolism to portray that evil uses beguilement to bring harm to the good. In both short stories, the clear distinction between the good and the evil is portrayed through the use of similar characters.
This leads Brown to run through the forest searching for his beloved Faith, landing him in a meeting, where guilt, sin, and evil are worshiped. Goodman Brown then returns to Salem. The narrator never definitively states if Goodman Brown’s journey was real or all a dream. However, real or not, Brown spends the rest of his life suspecting that there is true evil in everyone. Young Goodman Brown bears a strong resemblance to the story of Adam and Eve where curiosity through temptation causes humanity to bear the original sin of the fall of man.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a fantastic piece of American antitranscendentalism because in that it shows that humans are naturally evil, sinful, and guilty. Hawthorne's protagonist, Hester Prynne, shows in excellent example how human nature can be sinful. Although she is depicted as beautiful, angelic, and almost the epitome of perfection, Hawthorne reveals in his story how eyes are deceiving and humans are sinners by nature. Hawthorne writes, "Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne," (Hawthorne, 39). Prynne commits adultery in the novel, one of the most unforgivable sins.
Cameron Tipton Mrs. Woodard English 101 13 May 2015 Young Goodman Brown: The Dynamic Dynamite In a dream, Young Goodman Brown finds himself unsure of everything he has believed in. Young Goodman Brown is changed by his spiritual journey and is enlightened by the darkness that lies in the people he trust the most. A few influences play key roles in his transformation during his journey through the forest. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, the audience discovers a path of destruction in which the main character is dynamically changed due to his innocence, corruptibility, and faith. Innocence is easily corrupted by the gestures of the obscene.
The journey that Goodman Brown takes itself is a symbol of good versus evil. He is curious about what is happening out in the forest so he meets up with the “man” or devil who takes him on a journey to see a ceremony and along the way he sees many things that make him think twice. He actually asks himself this question, “What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow?” (155) The man’s staff is gnarled and twisted like a snake which can be thought of as the serpent that tempted Adam and Eve. The staff also acted as a tool to help him move through the forest at a quicker pace. When he leaves his wife at the beginning of the story, her pink ribbons symbolize her virtue and goodness but somewhere in the course of the evening he lost the meanings of those pink ribbons and only saw what Faith might have done while in the forest.
After a long time they get mean.” All the characters have inner conflict because of dissatisfaction with the external environment and of the people around them. This disappointment gives air to the hopes and dreams that lurks in most of the protagonists of the novella. In contrast to ‘Of mice and men’ is a gloomy tale, a parable of men traveling through a world of brutality, inhumanity and distinction. Their dreams look to be darkened, blocked by different means, pleasure seems to be impossible, and physical deformities affect and cut down their hopes. At the beginning of the novel, the scene is taken into a forest with plenty of sunshine and a tree promising that life is beautiful.
Forrest hill Professor P. Burgey English 1101-19 25 October 2010 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, Young Goodman Brown, is a story of a man who lost faith in humanity. Goodman Brown is a naïve character who is unaware of many if the iniquities of which people he idolizes have committed. Goodman has many weaknesses; he is self righteous as well as naïve, but most of all Brown is conceited. Brown’s character traits are obvious throughout the short story. From the start, Goodman Brown shows conceit, and up until the very end Brown pays the consequences for his weaknesses.