Poe’s The Black Cat and Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown Essay -- Young

Poes The Black Cat and Hawthorns unripened Goodman BrownIn Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne analyzes the Puritans consciousness and the hidden wickedness of their nature. He takes a nave Puritan man and takes him on a tour into the dark forest to decent an old man whom we presume, is the devil. As the nave Puritan embarks on his journey, his wife Faith kisses him ethical bye. The Puritan has an arouse feeling of guilt as he is entering the forest to meet with the dumbfound. He realized what he is doing was forbidden and none of his forefathers or checkmate Puritans would ever commit such a sin. During his meeting with the Devil his navet dissolves. He sees Deacon Gookin, his old catechism teacher, and other upstanding members of the community, whom he looked up to and feared, dancing around the Devils fire. He is told that the Devil has helped his father and Grandfather in years past. His innocence is completely sunk when he sees his own wife Faith dancing around the Devils ro ach . He screams in agony My faith is gone. There is no good on earth and sin is but a ...