Formal Analysis of Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown Essay -- Young Good

A Formal Analysis of Young Goodman brownish        Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown is an interest short layer that creatively tells cardinal stories at once.  One taradiddle is of a man leaving his married woman one night and venturing into the woods, and the other(a) is of his struggle with his religious faith.  In reading this story, it is beneficial for one to pure tone at it from a formalistic point of view.  Formal analysis makes the reviewer look closely at how a story is written to envision its deeper meaning.  Hawthorne takes advantage of careful word picking and images to create a look-alike of one mans journey that can easily parallel our own.       The word choice of every story plays a key role in mind the story.  In Young Goodman Brown almost every word contains a special meaning.  The title Hawthorne gives to his story is simple and informative it tells the reader proper(ip) away tha t the focus of the story is a young man.  The use of the nominate Brown is in like manner significant.  The name is universal so that it can bushel to anyone (Rhetoric 102L class discussion, January 15 2001).  The fact that his title is Goodman, instead of Mister, suggests that it took place close to colonial times. The name of his wife, Faith, is a clue held in the opening paragraph of the text that gives the reader and idea of what the story is near.  Though out the story Goodman Brown says phrases such as, Faith kept me back a while, which on the surface looks as though he is talking about his wife however just below the surface he is talking about how his faith in God that kept him from heading towards the Devil.  (HCAL 376).    Caref... ...odman Brown goes is also significant.  The Puritans believed that the witches and even the Devil lived in the woods, which can be a intimation foreshadowing what Goodman Brown will find in the forest .        Young Goodman Brown is full of carefully selected words.  Each place, item, and name described is significant to the story.   The word, faith, has two functions, a name and a belief.  Images such as the pink ribbons and the supply are useful for more than their everyday function.  Hawthorne knows the power of words and chooses wisely, therefore creating a story that, when looked at beyond the surface, has a completely cutting meaning.   - (Guerin, Wilfered Labor, Earle Morgan, Lee Reesman, Jeanne Willingham, John, A Handbook of Critical Appraches to Literature, New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.)