Figurative Language In Young Goodman Brown

Come to the Darkside Goodman Brown The story “Young Goodman Brown” is told from third person point of view from Goodman Brown’s perspective. The reader gets to know how the narrator felt in situations and his thoughts on the choice to be good or evil. A clue that Nathaniel Hawthorne provides the readers with is the language that the characters use throughout the story: old English. With a context of “Sayest thou so?... thee, not thou shalt turn back” (Hawthorne, 2). The author’s storytelling is told in a serious and dark tone with witchcraft, dark clouds, and the devil persuading Goodman Brown to become evil. Hawthorne’s style of writing utilizer figurative language “The cry of grief rage and terror was yet piercing the night” (Hawthorne