Just to get you started:
Personification: His wife's name is Faith, and she is the personification or embodiment of faithfulness. You might also see if other names might have deeper significance.
A symbol is something that stands for something that not itself; a heart symbolizes love, for instance. What do Faith's pink ribbons symbolize?
Metaphor for Faith: "a blessed angel on earth" (And this contrasts with another metaphor.)
Imagery: "I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven."
Setting: atmosphere changes drastically
Theme: good vs. evil
Forest is a symbol of _____.
Simile: "A" is like "B"; or "A" is as "B":
"...staff,...so curiously wrought, that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself *like* a living serpent."
A snake might turn out to be a motif. See if it comes up again.
"I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!" ----Abigail was speaking to John Proctor
Page 8: "like a beetle on a pin"
Page 87: "an eye like a marble"
Page 100: "He dropped like a tree"
Im not exactly sure although i am reading it
The devil takes the form of a older man with a walking stick shaped like a snake. This is from the story Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The narrator never seems to enter at a certain point; rather, he is omniscient throughout the entire story.
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literary devices can portray the authors meaning and point of the story. Such things as similes, can show the comparison of two things in the story. literary devices also can shape the story and give it an overall tone.
foreshadowing! :)
You can read this story on the Web Link to the left.
The story starts and ends in the colonial village of Salem, Massachusetts. But Goodman Brown ventures out into the forest for the middle section of the story.
The Devil himself.
It ruins his hope for salvation and his good attitude about everyone in general.
Young Goodman Brown was the eponymous character in a much-anthologized short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Presumably, he was called "Young Goodman Brown" in the story (rather than "Old Goodman Brown") because, as he was portrayed in the story, he was simply young rather than old. It is interesting to note that "young" is merely an adjective here, so one would expect that in the natural course of events "Young Goodman Brown" would eventually become "Old Goodman Brown."On the other hand, "Goodman" is his Christian name (or as it is now called, his first name, or forename). Goodman is the sort of name sometimes called an aptronym, that is, a name suited to its bearer---or perhaps a name which Goodman Brown's parents hoped would eventually describe him. Hawthorne set his story in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s, and as we know, the Puritans were much given to aptronyms for their children, sometime (for example) naming their children after virtues, such as Chastity, Charity Prudence and Patience.Of course, there is the possibility that "Young" is used here in the same way we would use "Junior" today. In that case, Young Goodman Brown's father would have been (presumably) Old Goodman Brown.
The resolution to Young Goodman Brown doesn't really fit the definition of the word as the crisis hasn't been resolved, rather it is worsened. Young Goodman Brown has been scared with the impression that all humans are inherently evil, to a great degree, and he can no longer deal with people on a 'friendly' basis. The last line of the story is '...and his dying hour was horror'.
Is a short story that delves into the relative nature of of right and wrong.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' the narrative begins in third person limited. As the story progresses the third person shifts to omniscient. The story then continues under this very limited narration until the end of the story, when the perspective once more broadens.
At the beginning of the story he has copious faith in the goodness of the townspeople and especially in Faith his fiancee. Thinking to ride the wings of her goodness to heaven. At the end of the story however he has lost all that faith and believe everybody to be be evil within.
The devil takes the form of a older man with a walking stick shaped like a snake. This is from the story Young Goodman Brown written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The narrator never seems to enter at a certain point; rather, he is omniscient throughout the entire story.
In "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this sentence indicates that the wizard in the story follows a different faith or belief system than what Goodman Brown has been taught. It suggests that the wizard worships a different deity than the Christian God in the Puritan society portrayed in the story, highlighting the theme of temptation and the questioning of one's faith.