Montresor Vs Goodman Brown Essay

For a better understanding of what is happening to Brown the reader should be aware of the symbolism used throughout the story. First, his wife Faith represents the faith of mankind in which she directs the way to heaven. Second, Brown’s journey into the dark forest represents his journey into the innermost depths of his soul; third, the devil represents Brown’s experience as he comes to believe that evil is the true nature of humanity (Walsh). These three symbols implicate the narration of the story in which Brown is a young man who is innocent in the ways of conformity in the world, who finds that not all human beings are good. As a result, he cannot remove the uncertainty of universal evil from his conscious mind. Faith signifies the faith of which Brown holds as he slowly hesitates the goodness of humanity. As he physically leaves his wife Faith in the beginning of the story, this represents his own loss of his spirituality and can be tracked throughout the events in the

When Brown finally reaches the meeting of the townspeople, his hope rises again because his wife Faith, whom he expects to see is not there. However, she soon unfortunately joins him and the others whom are about to undergo initiation. They are the “only pair, as it seemed who were yet hesitating on the verge of wickedness in the dark world” (Hawthorne). They stare at each other in frightened anticipation, and for the last time Brown calls out for help: “Faith! Faith!...Look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one” (Hawthorne). But “whether Faith obeyed he knew

     After studying the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case”, I began to see many similarities within the two stories. Both of the main characters in each story have characteristics that could be looked at as being alike, but after analyzing each character I started to find that although alike in some aspects, these two characters are very different from one another. At first I noticed that both Goodman Brown and Paul are starved for attention, but in different ways. Next, I see that each character has issues with their past and are both trying desperately to overcome them. Finally, I found that each character’s main goal in

Taking a trip to the forest, Brown discovers the truth that there is evil in all individuals realizing all that he had once thought to be true was a lie. After that one night, whether it was a dream or not, his ideas were set in stone. Because of the discovery in the forest, he believes that once a sin has been committed, one is automatically evil. As

Fortunato,” ‘I should like your opinion. But if you are too busy, I will get Luchesi’s advice. If anyone is a good judge, he is’”(Poe 68). The citation shows Montresor's deceitfulness since he is trying to guilt Fortunato to come with him. By saying he would like Fortunato's advice, it’s guilting Fortunato to come into the catacombs; only a brilliant and deceitful man could come up with this proposal. I can deduce that without Montresor's deviance, he would’ve never been able to trick Fortunato into the catacombs and to his death. Montresor's deceitfulness also fooled Fortunato to help him in carrying out his own death. Montresor tricks Fortunato into drinking for his cough, intoxicating him more and more with each sip. “I do not wish to alarm you-but you should take care of yourself. A drink of this Medoc will defend you from the damp”( Poe 69). This cite reveals how Montresor is tricking Fortunato into killing himself practically, and helping Montresor succeed. I can summarize that Montresor planned from the beginning to fool Fortunato into helping him by

We soon see foreshadowing of Fortunato's impending doom when the issue of Montresor's shield of arms is brought into the conversation as "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.". Even more appropriate is Montresor's family motto, translated as, "No one wounds me with impunity". Such a visual depiction and mental conviction due to family honor and history creates all the more impetus in Montresor to carry out the punishment that Fortunato deserves for wronging him, and more likely the family honor. When Montresor finally captures Fortunato in the catacombs, the climax of his precisely calculated deed, he revels in the sound of Fortunato's chains rattling, and "that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labors and sat down upon the bones". However, his satisfaction soon turns to apprehension when suddenly "a succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back". He hesitates at this moment, when his revenge is sweetest, when he should bask in the suffering of his "enemy", and finds himself contemplating the shrill screams of his captive! He does eventually compose

One afternoon, Brown tells his wife Faith that he has to leave for a day, but he will come back better than he was. Faith tries to get him to stay but he tells her he has to go. He then leaves for the forest of Salem, not knowing that he

The third characteristic we see in Montresor is pride. He isn’t modest and boasts even after fifty years about his perfect crime. His pride is what leads him to seek revenge against Fortunato because he doesn’t want him to think he can go with impunity after insulting him. The murder may have not been just out of anger for the insult but more of because he didn’t want to be seen as weak. Montresor takes pride in his extensively planned out scheme and how he plans out all the details.

he moves on while conversing with the devil and he finds out the first surprising thing of his eventful night .The devils informs Young Good Man Brown that his father and grand father have been involved in evil deeds such as dragging a woman through the streets and setting fire to an Indian village. Their conversation is interrupted by another character in the tale and that is Goody Cloys who happened to be Young Good Man Brown's catechism teacher in his childhood so therefore she is a religious figure. (Goody Cloys is based on an actual person tried during the Salem witch trail around the same time Young Good Man Brown) .try imagines what goes through his minds as he listens to the conversation between the two.

Seeing his fellow church members and his wife among women who were convicted and put to death for being witches makes Brown question himself. Yet, still Brown abhors transgression. Although he avoids Satan, however, he cannot forget how Satan influenced him with what he saw that night. He became " a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man" (Hawthorne 1244) and lived his life this way until death.

Then they didn't find the body for 50 years and Montresor was already dead so he didn't get caught but he had to live with that guilt like I mentioned in my introduction. When It said that Montresor killed Fortunato I was like wooo what did he do. I feel like all of what he did was not worth him getting killed. It was dumb of him to go down in the cellar and just to get a amontillado its just wine and I kinda expected it.

The action takes place in the Puritan Salem in the late XVII century. A young man by the name of Brown leaves at dusk in the forest and spent the night there, returning to his wife internally much changed man. What happened to him in the woods? As always, Hawthorne, answers may be several.

Once Brown is deep into the forest, he is surrounded by people from his town acting wicked and sinful, people who he had always assumed were noble and righteous. As he is led to the altar to be received into this association of evil, he is joined by his wife, Faith. Brown cannot believe his religious and heavenly wife is there. She represents what is good to him, and he cries to her to look heavenward and save herself. But

Although Brown learns the sins of the men in his family, he wants to go back to Faith. When he sees the man and Goody Cloyse talking about wrong doings, he cannot believe what he is seeing. A woman who “…taught me my catechism” claims the devil man as her friend, and she is on the path to darkness. After witnessing the encounter, Brown is too tired to continue. While he is sitting down, Brown overhears the minister and deacon Gookin conversing while traveling through the dark forest. Because he does not want people to know that he is in the forest, Brown hides himself from the minister and deacon Gookin. They talk of a meeting of sinners taking place in the forest where people from all around will be attending. After witnessing people who Brown perceives as good, but are bad, his faith starts to waver.

It is indicated that in the past that Fortunato has hurt Montresor many times, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” However, there were never any insults or unkind acts actually mentioned in the story. It is exactly the opposite. Fortunato was friendly and helpful towards Montresor. From the very beginning of the story, one can obviously see that Montresor thinks that Fortunato has wronged him. “He had a weak point-this Fortunato-although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared.” This line shows that Montresor’s plan was well thought out. There is not any indication of what Fortunato thinks about Montresor. It can only be assumed that he trusts him do to the fact that he follows Montresor into the catacombs. It is up until the last moment, before the last brick is laid, that Fortunato believes this is all a joke. “Ha! Ha! Ha! – He! He! He! – a very good joke, indeed-an excellent jest.” Montresor is successful in his plan for vengeance. He succeeds in having Fortunato follow him into the catacombs and with great ease, had him up against the wall and shackled. Then tier-by-tier, Montresor constructed Fortunato’s tomb of bricks around him. When Montresor called out to him, he heard nothing and thus his plan was a success. “In pace requiescat!”