Young Goodman Brown
If I was to describe Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown with at least words as possible i would have said mysterious dark romanticism play with time and Devil’s work. There are many scenes in which the author places his characters in situations where Devil has his fingers in the eeriness and mysteriousness. The reader, or me in this case, just can’t get over the feeling how he will soon place his characters in the Limbo itself. Very spooky, dark short story, that I couldn’t really decide who it is trying to criticize. Then I realized, it is the dark realism. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Gothic elements with Christianity motives to start convincing the reader life isn’t sweet and bright reality and sin is hidden in everyone, inside us. At the same time you are not sure if it is all an illusion of young Goodman Brown who might be going insane or really the work of Devil.
Both stories have the evil planning and playing against their protagonist. That evil comes either in the light of imagination or the evilness of humans. Both stories portrait human evil nature and evil intentions - “Homo homini lupus”
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