Thursday, October 18, 2007
"Young Goodman Brown"
As I began reading my first impression of the story was very spiritual. The story gave me an impression that it was speaking of the afterlife and crossing over. What made me take on this thought was that throughout the story it talked about a journey, and the name Faith was the name of Mr. Brown's wife. Also the wording of the story like thou, thy were very biblical. However, as the story went on it began to speak of wickedness, brooms and serpents. This is when I started to get confused. I had to question myself, was this story written in biblical thoughts or for witchcraft? I'm still confused, can someone help me out?
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Sherell--read some of the other blogs and comments--but also, some things to think about:
The narrator tells us at one point, for eg., that GB is the most evil sight around... how can we take this, and what does this have to do with his behavior at the end of the story? What is it GB can't see/accept (about himself, the realtionship of good and eveil). Think about images of seeing/notseeing...
As for the witch trials--a family history there; Hawthorne's guilt over his Puritan ancestory and questioning of of the dualistic nature of Puritan morality inform this story, and some others...
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