Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Young Goodman Brown
This short story takes place in Salem during witchcraft period during the witch hunts. Why was this story written so much after it actually happened. It almost states something like do not let history repeat itself. I wonder why it was basically women who were accused of being witches? It was very possible that a man could have been a witch too. I also really can't figure out if him seeing his wife within the meeting in the forest was a dream or not. I'm confused..i'm about to go read it for the 3rd time.
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I think the author wanted to keep the reader guessing about whether it was a dream or not. I think some men were accused of being withces or warlock also. I agree that parts of the story were confusing.
I must that I too, did get a bit confuse from this reading. What I did get that to some extent the narrator would have it's reader think of magic (witch- craft and some form of satanic worship) something that society may frown upon hence the secret meeting in the dark. It can also show us that sometime we take life, people for granted. In wonder because of the people whom where present at the night meeting all appears normal the following day, one have to wonder if Goodman made the entire thing up or that unlike his wife he couldn’t be brainwash into the secret society and so to tem he was an outsider, or could it be that Goodman was plain mad man as one might think giving how they states he died.
ok--keep at it. Consider what it is that GB can't see/accept (about himself, the nature of good and evil);the story is really about a self-conflict, right? even self-contradiction, rather than an opposition of good and evil... Your and Albert's questionsabout the ambiguity of dream and reality in the story would be interesing to explore.
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