Similarities Between Young Goodman Brown And The Man In The Black Suit

Innocence and purity are often closely tied with security and safety. To some, if you stay pure, you stay safe. This is especially apparent in the horror genre, which uses people’s fears of impending danger to frighten their readers. Fears of which that can relate to this idea of purity. A horror story that touches on this, is a writing by Stephen King called The Man in the Black Suit. King’s short story heavily touches on these ideas of innocence, and it relating to actual, real-life danger. Another story, ties these ideas to a different kind of danger. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown plays with these ideas, but in a different light. The danger in Young Goodman Brown is different from The Man in the Black Suit, showing the fear of