Father Brown and Brother Cadfael were two monks with very different crime solving techniques. Father Brown is a short and plump little monk who listening skills for surpass those of the wise old owl. He claims it is the result of listening to people confess their sins every day. On the other hand, Brother Cadfael is just an average monk who loves to garden as well as mentor younger wanna-be monks. Like Father Brown started his life ending up in bad situations but eventually when he was about forty somehow he found himself in the monastery. This honorable man does not solve crimes for the good and glory of himself, but instead for the well-being of others. Through their crime solving careers, a couple of differences were pointed out to me. Father Brown and Brother Cadfael used different methods for observing, exchanging information, and revealing themselves to others.
Brother Cadfael was a very observant man with his eyes. In the book A Morbid Taste for Bones, he would not allow Sioned to touch her father because by observing the body he could find out information about what happened. His exact words to the frightened girl were, “No! Touch nothing! Not yet! Let him alone, he has things to tell us!” On the other hand, Father Brown did not sometimes observe the body of a dead victim. He instead would listen to the things people said and watch their reactions to certain situations guide him. Father Brown once backed up a hypothesis of his about another man disguising as a monk by simply watching his reactions to things he did. Father Brown explained time that he did this as follows, “A man generally makes a small scene if he finds salt in his coffee; if he doesn’t, he has some reason for keeping quiet. I changed the salt an...
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The skeleton had a hideous impact to the community and was predicted by local investigators to be reasonably modern. To get better understanding and avoid confusion, a bone sample was sent to a laboratory in the USA for investigation and analysation using series of scientific
If Brown truly conceives of himself as fallen, why would he snatch the child from one fiend to yield yet another, namely himself? Brown must believe himself untainted, or at least less tainted than various members of his community. (115)
Boyer, Richard O. The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and a History. New York, NY: Knopf, 1973. Print.
In Indiana, Sir Ralph Brown is George Sand's Byronic hero. He is a passive, intelligent man that has shut himself off from society because he found that world to be harsh and cruel to him. His one motivation and goal in life is to watch over the weak...
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In every fictional book, the author develops the characters and often lets you in on the protagonist’s worldview and view of man. In the short story, The Blue Cross, Father Brown while talking to another priest stated, “[he] knows that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the way other way” (Chesterton 13). He views man as the one lowering reason in all actuality and thinks that reason acts as the ultimate moral standards. After observing man, Brown comes up with the belief where he thinks of humans as foolish and amusing. In the story, The Man in the Passage, the judge questions him in court why two distinguished men did not recognize themselves in the mirror while he did. He simply responded, “Really my lord, I don’t know…unless it’s because I don’t look at it so often” (Chesterton 61). Deliberately poking fun at the pompous dandies the judge referred to, he feels that those men have lost their true sense of who they were because they care too much about themselves and their status. Brother Cadfael’s view of man had empathy as well as understan...
Although Brown never glamorizes the life of drugs, violence, and prostitution, his use of humor and understatement allows him to avoid didacticism. He relates the story of his “religious conversion” as he rolled on the floor of a storefront church and shouted words of salvation, all in an attempt to get a date with the
McKeithan, D. M. Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": An Interpretation 67.2 (1952): 93-96. JSTOR. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
When the tale of Melibee ended, the Host said that he'd give up a barrel of ale to have his wife hear the tale of Prudence and her patience, for she is an ill-tempered woman. The Host asks the narrator his name, and attempts to guess his profession perhaps a sexton or other such officer, or a wily governor. The Monk will tell the next tale, a series of tragedies.
But the heart of this story centers on a theme of initiation, an initiation that result in the demise of Goodman Brown’s happiness. To understand why Goodman Brown became “A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man…” (482), the reader needs to understand Goodman Brown’s childhood. Goodman Brown grew up in the late 1600’s, in Salem Village, Massachusetts; a village settled by the Puritans. The Puritans are a people know for their strict moral...
He embarks on a dangerous journey meeting evil to help himself understand the answer to exactly why he is inadequate to his society. In doing so leaving “Faith” behind as it will keep him back further showing his ambivalence and ambiguity toward his religion.“'My love and my Faith,' replied young Goodman Brown, 'of all the nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My Journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and sunrise” (Hawthrone 1). The moment this statement was made Brown temporally abandons “Faith”, in the since of not only his wife, but his religious integrity because as a puritan you were to believe in predestination. If Brown was not ambivalent toward his religious faith this statement would have been avoided. If one were to have faith it must never be abandoned, by abandoning it Brown demonstrates his willingness to leave what he believes in. By temporarily leaving his wife he is demonstrating mankind’s perpetual needs to seek knowledge, but unless one is unclear that knowledge does not need to be found. Further showing Browns ambiguity
At last I arrived, unmolested except for the rain, at the hefty decaying doors of the church. I pushed the door and it obediently opened, then I slid inside closing it surreptitiously behind me. No point in alerting others to my presence. As I turned my shoulder, my gaze was held by the magnificence of the architecture. It never fails to move me. My eyes begin by looking at the ceiling, and then they roam from side to side and finally along the walls drinking in the beauty of the stained glass windows which glowed in the candle light, finally coming to rest on the altar. I slipped into the nearest pew with the intention of saying a few prayers when I noticed him. His eyes were fixated upon me. I stared at the floor, but it was too late, because I was already aware that he wasn’t one of the priests, his clothes were all wrong and his face! It seemed lifeless. I felt so heavy. My eyes didn’t want to obey me. Neither did my legs. Too late I realised the danger! Mesmerised, I fell asleep.
In Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” , there is a re-occurring theme of the uncanny that is commented on by both Sigmund Freud and Ernst Jentsch, who try to explain the uncanny in different ways by highlighting events and imagery that they believe to play a key role in creating it. I however, would argue that the uncanny is a more universal theme in the story and likewise, it’s source will be much more general. In the course of this paper, I intend to prove that the source of the uncanny is the fact that the reader doubts the reality they are presented within the text in the same way that one would doubt the reality that is perceived by a schizophrenic. This is due to the fact that the narrator suffers from schizophrenia and a possible dissociative personality disorder. Furthermore, the events of the short story only occur within the twisted mind of the narrator and represent a series of psychical manifestations that were most likely imagined as a defense mechanism to deal with the traumatic loss of his father and siblings.
The first sign of internal conflict between good and evil or rather good and curiosity in Young Good Man Brown .I say curiosity because there is the possibility that Young Good Man Brown attended the mass because he wanted to see how it was and what it was all about. As he leave shies wife Faith he is probably thinking I'll do this one wrong deed then be perfect for the rest of my life; Perfect enough he that he says "after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven" (211)He is so convinced of her holine...
In Sigmund Freud’s examination of The Uncanny he looks at this subject through the lens of psycho-analysis and aesthetics and seeks to establish the meaning of uncanny and relate it to occurrences and circumstances. Therefore, it is not surprising that Freud relies on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sand-Man as a primary model. What is surprising, however, is Freud’s partial interpretation of the literature. Freud’s treatment of Hoffmann’s Sand-Man is not a valid rendering because it focuses too heavily on attributing the uncanny to the castration complex, while rejecting Jentsch’s theory of intellectual uncertainty, and altogether neglecting the profound spiritual constituents of this tale. Freud’s summary is incomplete because it only furnishes one perspective and omits relevant information. However, his exploration of themes, especially that of ‘double,’ does provide exemplary insights and equips readers with the necessary information to formulate their own perspectives.