Compare And Contrast The Birth Mark And Young Goodman Brown
The short stories by Nathanial Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark" and "Young Goodman Brown" was the most talked about. Everyone knew that in "The Birth-Mark" man thinks they could change nature using science. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” showed charctericts of Dark Romanticism.
When it came to looking for charctericts of Romanticism, "The Birth-Mark" stuck out more to me and Natalie. We both saw that Aylmer believed that science was superior over nature and man cannot change nature. Through the whole story Aylmer was trying to “fix” his wife, Georgiana, because he thought nature made a mistake. She was perfect in every way, except for her birthmark, The Crimson Hand. When he did find the cure and gave it to his wife, she died. Thus showing
that man cannot outsmart nature, as Natalie stated, “But in the end, nature wins because it cannot be defeated by man, nor the sciences that man makes up because nature, in it its own way, is perfect.”
In the short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, was talking about the devil and sin. I didn’t relieize the irony of the story until I read what Elley said. She pointed out that at the begging of the journey, Goodman Brown, was leaving his wife, Faith, to go on a journey, but didn’t tell her what he was doing. Since he never told her what he was doing he started feeling awful and gloomy, which made his imagination get the best of him. He started talking about how there could things in the forest that’s watching him, even the devil! As Elley pointed out there is irony in this, “The irony is when Goodman Brown adds “the devil himself should be at my very elbow” and immediately afterwards he stumbles upon his worst fear, the devil himself. (Spengemann 52).” The irony that I saw was his wife, Faith. Her name is Faith, and she wears pink ribbons on her cap, showing that she’s a pure good little Christian girl but yet she’s found at the Devil’s gathering. Showing that she’s not as good and pure like her husband, Goodman Brown, thought she was.
When it came to looking for charctericts of Romanticism, "The Birth-Mark" stuck out more to me and Natalie. We both saw that Aylmer believed that science was superior over nature and man cannot change nature. Through the whole story Aylmer was trying to “fix” his wife, Georgiana, because he thought nature made a mistake. She was perfect in every way, except for her birthmark, The Crimson Hand. When he did find the cure and gave it to his wife, she died. Thus showing
that man cannot outsmart nature, as Natalie stated, “But in the end, nature wins because it cannot be defeated by man, nor the sciences that man makes up because nature, in it its own way, is perfect.”
In the short story, “Young Goodman Brown”, was talking about the devil and sin. I didn’t relieize the irony of the story until I read what Elley said. She pointed out that at the begging of the journey, Goodman Brown, was leaving his wife, Faith, to go on a journey, but didn’t tell her what he was doing. Since he never told her what he was doing he started feeling awful and gloomy, which made his imagination get the best of him. He started talking about how there could things in the forest that’s watching him, even the devil! As Elley pointed out there is irony in this, “The irony is when Goodman Brown adds “the devil himself should be at my very elbow” and immediately afterwards he stumbles upon his worst fear, the devil himself. (Spengemann 52).” The irony that I saw was his wife, Faith. Her name is Faith, and she wears pink ribbons on her cap, showing that she’s a pure good little Christian girl but yet she’s found at the Devil’s gathering. Showing that she’s not as good and pure like her husband, Goodman Brown, thought she was.