Young Goodman Brown Analysis

Some people read stories and see them all completely different with all completely different meanings. In a way that is correct, they are all different, however; though this analysis it will be shown that“The Lottery” and “Young Goodman Brown” are very similar through different literary elements of fiction. In “The Lottery” and “Young Goodman Brown,” authors Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne employ point of view, setting and conflict to show similarities between these two very different stories.

The point of view in “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” is a third person perspective was used to portray a person looking in on the scene. A third person perspective is when there is a person looking at the story and it seems as if they are there watching; however, it is not normally defined on who is telling the story. In “Young Goodman Brown,” a limited omniscient narrator was used during parts of his walk but it is mostly third person objective. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorne an example of the third person objective is “His head being turned back, he passed a crook of the road again, beheld the figure of a man
“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with a heavy pencil in the coal-company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up and there was a stir in the crowd.” (Jackson 221) that was an example from “The Lottery” and it is when they picked the name they were going to stone and everyone realized what was really going to happen. In Young Goodman Brown, this is when he realized his wife was gone and this is when he turned from good to evil very fast. “”Faith!” shouted Goodman Brown, in a voice of agony and desperation; and the echoes of the forest mocked him, crying—“Faith! Faith!” as if bewildered wretches were seeking her all through the wilderness.”(Hawthorne