Compare And Contrast Young Goodman Brown And The Tell Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” comes from the narrator’s point of view while he commits a murder. “Young Goodman Brown,” another short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, centers on the titular character as he discovers that fellow townspeople are guilty of the sins they have committed. While the two stories may have different plots and different authors, they both share a common theme. Both Hawthorne’s and Poe’s stories depict that everyone has sins, and are then forced to live with guilt as the characters in each story have committed a sort of wrongdoing and experience psychological violence. The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” wanting to convince the reader of his sanity, explains his intent to murder an old man and the psychological aftermath. After committing the murder and hiding the old man’s corpse with pride, three police officers enter the house. At first, the narrator remains calm around the officers until he “ felt [himself] getting pale and wished them gone” (Poe 5). Despite murdering the …show more content…
While in the woods, he learns that few of the townspeople are holding a ceremony and that “a nice young man to be taken into communion” (Hawthorne 5). The ceremony turns out to be the Witches’ Sabbath, a meeting to practice witchcraft, and the people plan to introduce a new member. The “nice young man” is revealed to be Brown, and evil is about to spread to him. After Brown realizes the sinful nature of humanity, he becomes convinced that everyone he knows is evil, including his wife, Faith, and cries out, "My Faith is gone!... There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given" (Hawthorne 8). Faith symbolizes Brown’s faith in God and everyone. When he cries out that his Faith is gone, he has also lost his faith in everything he believed in, and believes that there is no longer good in the
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