Compare And Contrast Young Goodman Brown And A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” mentions three dark events from the Puritan’s history. Moreover, it could be said that the story was a result of Hawthorne’s feelings about his ancestors who were involved in the Salem witch trial as well as in other atrocities against Native Americans and Quacks. On the other hands, Flannery O’connor’s Catholic upbringing influenced almost all of her fictions. Her characters often face violent situations that force them into the moment of crisis that awaken their faiths. The two short stories “Young Good Man Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor both have characters that allow their faiths to be altered by evils. The Grandmother’s lies bout her trip to her family in “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” end up in a death of her family and herself, while the wrong paths taken by Goodman Brown lead him to the loss of his innocence. In short, both stories show how abandoning one Christian’s faith can allow evil to enter and conquer one’s live. In O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find", the story begins with the family planning a trip to Florida. The grandmother is an irksome, manipulative woman. She always longs for her life in the past, instead of living her life as it is in the present. "People are certainly not
The symbolisms in both stories represent a weakness in private religious faith and death. “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a good example about presence of evil in man’s heart. Loneliness, confusion, and doubt are Brown’s feeling after coming back from the woods. These symbolize Brown’s reservations of surrendering to the devil’s evil ways. In short, both stories show how abandoning one Christian’s faith can allow evil to enter and conquer one’s