The Chambered Nautilus Young Goodman Brown

Life is like a book. Within these books a person’s story goes through trials of finding themselves, seeking answers, and going through wrong paths. Life is a book full of lessons that one applies from one stage to the next. A person applies one lesson from their past to new experience. Young Goodman Brown represents the struggle of life and how a person can lose sight of themselves in the journey of life. The Chambered Nautilus represents the positive that the struggles that a person goes through the past will help them learn and grow. Life struggles and success are from out past mistakes are from learning from them. The Chambered Nautilus represented how nature closed the past and continue to the future, while Young Goodman Brown uses nature to represent being stuck in the past.
The Chambered Nautilus represents the growth of a person from one point in life to the next, and Holmes uses nature to interpret the positivity from moving forward from the past. In stanza one of The Chambered Nautilus, Holmes represents the past as the Nautilus and the person moving on as the mollusk. Holmes wrote, “This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign”, he explains
Stanza three of The Chambered Nautilus speaks about growth and moving one part of the shell to the next. This uses the symbolism of nature to relate it from moving on from the past. The nautilus moves from one chamber to a bigger chamber to grow. A person will move from one part of their life, and the person will leave that one part of their life behind and continue to move forward. Like a child moving from middle school to high school, they will carry the lessons they learned in middle school and apply them to high school. The last stanza ties all expects of growth. Growth can be done when a person moves on from the past, and even though they cannot return to the past they are able to look