Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is typical of his works as it represents one of his common themes, morality. A&E’s electronic biographies states, Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804 and his life was steeped in the Puritan legacy (Biography Editors). His Puritan linage includes John Hathorne, a judge in the Salem witch trials. Shameful of his family’s past, he added the ‘w’ to his last name. His father, a ship’s captain, died when Hawthorne was only 4 and his Mother became
Thesis Statement: In Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses moral allegory to tell his readers how one must experience life in order to avoid temptations. Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, is truly an interesting one. It is full of layers of allegory that the author communicates very well to the readers. It starts off with a man named Goodman Brown who lives in Salem. He is saying goodbye to his young wife, Faith, who wears a pink ribbon, to go to a journey in the
American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, quite simply, had a complicated relationship with women. When his father died from Yellow Fever in 1808, Hawthorne, then only four-years-old, was left to be raised by his mother and two sisters (Conway 16). Hawthorne’s childhood, which was shaped almost entirely by women, proved to have a profound impact on his life and perception of femininity. Consequently, Hawthorne more fully understood women and created female characters who were multifaceted, nuanced, and
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monstrous beast part man part bull, which fed on human flesh and lived in a labyrinth in Crete. In Ted Hughes’ poem, the Minotaur is a symbolism of Sylvia Plath’s father Otto and a metaphoric representation of Otto’s rage, ferocity and terrorism of his daughter. Whilst the labyrinth is metaphorically speaking the complexity and madness that is Sylvia’s mind. Hughes begins his poem with lurid violence, anger and frustration. “The mahogany table-top you smashed”