Compare and Contrast Essay
Compare and Contrast essay
The short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "A Rose for Emily" use a moral to show particular ideals or values through their characters choices and actions of one another. The reader is faced with a life lesson after reading "Young Goodman Brown:" you cannot judge other people. A similar moral is presented in "A Rose for Emily." The use of morals combined with elements of Romantic era writing show the stories of to be descendants both of fables and of Romance literature. "Young Goodman Brown" tells the story of a young man who decides to league himself with the devil. Goodman Brown is a citizen of a typical town with its share of good people and not-so good people. Goodman Brown believed that he knew the people of the town fairly well. He knew Goody Cloyse, for example, to be "a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual advisor, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin." He knew Deacon Gookin was a strict man of the Church and was always "bound to some ordination or ecclesiastical council." However, in his travels through the woods with the old man, Goodman Brown notices Goody Cloyse progressing down the path.
Just as he begins to have doubts about the woman"s place of heart, as she should not be in the woods at this time, he comes across Deacon Gookin in the woods as well. As they are supposedly fine, upstanding citizens of the village, Goodman Brown has to wonder why they are traveling through the woods on the same path that he is taking with the devil. Afterwards, he is astonished to see not only these two upstanding citizens at Satan"s ceremony, but almost everyone else in the town as well. It is through his assumption that his fellow townspeople were good that Goodman Brown learns the story"s most important lesson, you should not judge people at face value; anyone can pretend to be someone they aren’t , and his encountering of the devil"s ceremony
The short stories "Young Goodman Brown" and "A Rose for Emily" use a moral to show particular ideals or values through their characters choices and actions of one another. The reader is faced with a life lesson after reading "Young Goodman Brown:" you cannot judge other people. A similar moral is presented in "A Rose for Emily." The use of morals combined with elements of Romantic era writing show the stories of to be descendants both of fables and of Romance literature. "Young Goodman Brown" tells the story of a young man who decides to league himself with the devil. Goodman Brown is a citizen of a typical town with its share of good people and not-so good people. Goodman Brown believed that he knew the people of the town fairly well. He knew Goody Cloyse, for example, to be "a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual advisor, jointly with the minister and Deacon Gookin." He knew Deacon Gookin was a strict man of the Church and was always "bound to some ordination or ecclesiastical council." However, in his travels through the woods with the old man, Goodman Brown notices Goody Cloyse progressing down the path.
Just as he begins to have doubts about the woman"s place of heart, as she should not be in the woods at this time, he comes across Deacon Gookin in the woods as well. As they are supposedly fine, upstanding citizens of the village, Goodman Brown has to wonder why they are traveling through the woods on the same path that he is taking with the devil. Afterwards, he is astonished to see not only these two upstanding citizens at Satan"s ceremony, but almost everyone else in the town as well. It is through his assumption that his fellow townspeople were good that Goodman Brown learns the story"s most important lesson, you should not judge people at face value; anyone can pretend to be someone they aren’t , and his encountering of the devil"s ceremony