Comparing Good And Evil In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown

Both authors also share a great deal of settings and themes. In “The Tiger,” we are set in a in a dark forest with deeps or skies “In the forests of the night / In what distant deeps or skies” (Blake 2-5) it sets an image of hell with fire up above and down below. In “Young Goodman Brown,” we are also set in a dark forest “He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest … It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude” (Hawthorne 18-20) Goodman Brown is in on a dreary road in the forest filled with gloomy tress. Another example Hawthorne gives us to create a setting of hell is when he says “While he still gazed upward, into the deep arch of the firmament … the blue sky was still
You can see this in “The Tiger” when the author questions god, why could he have made something so evil when he’s the creator of everything good in the world. He talks about how God can create something so beautiful but terrifying at the same type and he later goes on to say if it was God’s intent to make something so beautiful and evil and if it was the same God that makes good things in the world also create evil, “Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?.” (Blake 19-20). In “Young Goodman Brown”, Goodman Brown also starts questioning if people in Salem are good or evil. Before meeting the devil in the forest Goodman believed everyone in Salem and including his family where good puritans/men of god, only to later find out that his father, grandfather and almost everyone that preaches the word of god has been corrupted of evil. Goodman Brown has been stripped from his innocence and can’t be able to see everyone as they once were, only as corrupted people like when he sees Goody Cloyse “that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine, at her own lattice, catechising a little girl, who had brought her a pint of morning's milk. Goodman Brown snatched away the child, as from the grasp of the fiend himself.” (Hawthorne 247-248) Goodman Brown can’t see Goody Cloyse the same way after knowing she worships the devil himself and tries to protect the little girl
Breslin talks about Ginsberg and his works as a poet and how he thinks Ginsberg “writing has been to inconsistent for him to be ranked as a major poet” (Breslin 83) but thinks that Ginsberg is a great poet and that “Howl” and “Kaddish” are one of his greatest works of literature. Breslin talks about Ginsberg’s poems and what he went through when writing these poems. Breslin goes on to say “both poems, given the intense and concentrated energy of their surrealistic language, their vivid creation of a world of primitive terrors and hallucinatory brilliance, their striking shifts of voice and mood, have genuine literary merit.” (84). Breslin talks about Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” being real and not censored and being full of poetic energy, all while creating a world of terror. Which is what Ginsberg does in “Howl” creating a hellish world filled with drugs, lust, homosexuality and being persecuted for who you