The Structure of Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown Essay -- Young Goodma

new-fangled Goodman Brown the Structure Q. D. Leavis in Hawthorne as Poet mentions Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown as fundamentally dramatic The first batch of works I specified including Young Goodman Brown is essentially dramatic, its use of language is poetic, and it is symbolic, and richly so, as is the dramatic poets. . . (27) This study will examine this and other features of the structure of Hawthornes short story. Leavis evaluation of the storys structure as essentially dramatic is consistent with the take hold of expressed by Clarice Swisher in Nathaniel Hawthorne a Biography. She states Biographers and critics of Nathaniel Hawthorne mustiness deal with opposites determination and self- suspect, imagery of light and dark, flowers and weeds paradoxes (13). Swishers opposites and Leavis essentially dramatic are the like concept, in the estimation of this reader. Lets examine the text to see evidence of this notice how the opposites say their lines in the fashion of a drama dearest heart, whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, prythee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight. A lone woman is tumultuous with such dreams and such thoughts, that shes afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year My love and my Faith, replied young Goodman Brown, of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married ... ...n Brown, including the time-frame, the use of foreshadowing, suspenseful incidents, the dramatic aspect, the climax and denouement. WORKS CITED Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed. New York Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown. 1835. http//www .cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.html Kaul, A.N. Introduction. In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Leavis, Q.D. Hawthorne as Poet. In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Swisher, Clarice. Nathaniel Hawthorne a Biography. In Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Clarice Swisher. San Diego, CA Greenhaven Press, 1996.