1. by Nathaniele Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
by Nathaniele Hawthorne

2. Work Analysis

3. Encounters Evil assembly The next Morning Goodman died
Exposition: The mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the story. The setting is identified. The main characters with their positions, circumstances and relationships to one another are established. The exciting force or initial conflict is introduced. Sometimes called the “Narrative HOOK” this begins the conflict that continues throughout the story.
Rising Action: The series of events, conflicts, and crises in the story that lead up to the climax, providing the progressive intensity, and complicate the conflict.
Climax: The turning point of the story. A crucial event takes place and from this point forward, the protagonist moves toward his inevitable end. The event may be either an action or a mental decision that the protagonist makes.
Falling Action: The events occurring from the time of the climax to the end of the story. The main character may encounter more conflicts in this part of the story, but the end is inevitable.
Resolution/Denouement: The tying up of loose ends and all of the threads in the story. The conclusion. The hero character either emerges triumphant or is defeated at this point.
Goodman died
Set off on a journey 3

4. The companion
His head being turned back, he passed a crook of the road, and, looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree. He arose at Goodman Brown's approach and walked onward side by side with him.

5. It was now deep dusk in the forest, and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying. As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveller was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still they might have been taken for father and son. And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table or in King William's court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither. But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.

6. Style
Symbolism
Pink ribbon
Forest
Sunset
The devil’s staff

7. the Pink Ribbons Pink is associated with innocence and gaiety.
Ribbon is a modest, innocent decoration for girlness.

8. Forest & Sunset
The world outside: outside the village, outside the normal boundaries of right and wrong, outside of Brown's comfort zone. But they could symbolize something else as well: the woods could be an embodiment of young Goodman Brown's fears and suspicions, a freaky picture of dark feelings he doesn't normally acknowledge. (Similarly backed up by the approaching night)

9. The Serpent Staff
In the book of Genesis, the serpent tempts Eve to taste the fruit from the forbidden tree.
The loss of innocence.
The fall of human.

10. Pun Style Faith: religious belief; female purity; family redemption
Young Goodman Brown: youth=innocence; Goodman=Goody=Goodwife=Mr.& Mrs.; Brown=common name=everyone

11. Style
Allegory
It is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning.
It is not meant to characterize, to particularize, but to generalize, and to address abstract ideas.

12. Setting

13. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 Born in Salem, Massachusetts
Puritan Background
Ancestor of John Hathorne – one of the three judges in the Salem Witch Trials

15. Theme The human nature Evil is at the core of human heart
Hidden sin – hypocrisy of people around
Original sin – Goodman himself vacillates between inherent goodness and dark side of mind
Loss of faith

16. Radical version of Protestantism Religious belief of American founders
Puritanism
Radical version of Protestantism
Religious belief of American founders
Provides a set of values for American society and culture

17. Basic Puritan Beliefs
1. Total Depravity - through Adam and Eve's fall, every person is born sinful - concept of Original Sin.
2. Unconditional Election - God "saves" those he wishes - only a few are selected for salvation - concept of predestination.
3. Limited Atonement - Jesus died for the chosen only, not for everyone.
4. Irresistible Grace - God's grace is freely given, it cannot be earned or denied. Grace is defined as the saving and transfiguring power of God.
5. Perseverance of the "saints" - those elected by God have full power to interpret the will of God, and to live uprightly. If anyone rejects grace after feeling its power in his life, he will be going against the will of God - something impossible in Puritanism.

18. W R I T N G S Y L E the use of symbol
to connect a bygone time with the very Present
revelation of characters’ psychology
the use of supernatural mixed with the actual
use of ambiguity to keep the reader in the world of
uncertainty – multiple point of view
his stories are parable (allegory) – to teach a lesson

19. Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Assignment
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Give a brief introduction into characters depicted in the selected reading
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