Characterization in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown Essay -- Young Goo

This sample will demonstrate the types of characters present in Nathaniel Hawthornes unripened Goodman Br sustain, whether static or dynamic, whether flat or round, and whether protrayed through showing or telling. R. W. B. Lewis in The Return into Rime Hawthorne states there is always more to the world in which Hawthornes characters move than any one of them can see at a glance (77). This is especially true with such(prenominal) flat or two-dimensional characters as are generally found in Young Goodman Brown. These type characters are built on a single imagination or quality and are presented without much individualizing detail (Abrams 33). Faith, of course, represents or symbolizes the theological virtue of faith Goody Cloyse, as a catechism teacher, represents goodness the unidentified fellow-traveller in the woods is symbolic of evil. Q. D. Leavis explains this symbolic rehearse of characters The first sight of works I specified including Young Goodman Brown is essential ly dramatic, its use of language is poetic, and it is symbolic, and richly so, as is the dramatic poets. . . Where the symbol is the thing itself, with no separable paraphrasable meaning as in an allegory the language is without delay evocative (27). The flat character Faith is not developed handle her husband her dialogue is restricted to the opening few paragraphs. She speaks only iv sentences in the entire story Dearest heart, whispered she, softly and quite an 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 troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that shes afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husb... ...ng Goodman Brown. 1835. http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.html Kaul, A.N. Introduction. In Hawthorne A allurement of tiny Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Leavis, Q.D. Hawtho rne as Poet. In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Lewis, R. W. B. The Return into Time Hawthorne. 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. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York Continuum print Co., 1989.