![]() Brown’s feelings-insecure, guilty, sinful, and also curious-were mixed together, and he asked himself what those pious people were doing in the place full of devils. Those people were going into the same direction with him. He felt more shocked when he also found other pious people from his village in the same forest where he was such as the minister and Deacon Gookin. Feeling worried that Goody Cloyse would see him following the devil in the forest (he was worried that the pious woman would consider him as a devil follower, and not a pious man any longer), Brown tried to hide. Therefore, Brown was shocked when he found Goody Cloyse, a very pious woman in his village who taught him his catechism. it is understandable because he considered forests a place where devils and satans meet each other. His curiosity about what he would find in the forest is bigger than his feeling insecure to follow the devil.īesides feeling insecure, Brown also felt sinful because following the devil in a dangerous place. Instead, he continued following the old man. Nevertheless, he did not go back to his village. He regarded the old man whom he first met in the forest as the devil. Brown-the descendant of “ a race of honest men and good Christians ” (Baym, 1989: 1112)-in fact felt insecure to follow that old man, because he thought that the congregation in the forest were the followers of the devil. There, he met a so-called fifty-year-old man who took him to a certain place in the forest where there would be an ‘ordination’ and Brown would be ordained to be one of the members of the man’s congregation. In “Young Goodman Brown”, the main character-Brown-left his wife whom he married just for three months, to do an “errand” to the forest. After that, I will elaborate the similarities and the differences I found in the two stories. First, I will analyze the story one by one. This paper will compare Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going? Where have you been?” Hawthorne’s story belongs to the Romantic Period while Oates’ belongs to the Postmodern Period. AND “WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?” By Nana Podungge ![]()
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