Young Goodman Brown And The Lottery Comparison Essay

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Everyday you experience being around people and observing each individual. What if you realized or was blind that all people are evil. That your life took a turn and things that use to be normal is not anymore because of your tradition or experience. “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” both show to have the evil in people in some type of way. They can be compared and contrasted in plot, symbolism, and characterization.
The plot in “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Lottery” are surprisingly similar in many ways. Such as how they start, in “Young Goodman Brown” it starts off in an happy town. With him kissing his wife and being very loving of her and the townspeople being excited for “Young Goodman Brown”. It took a dark turn when Young …show more content…

Such as, when the children are enjoying a break from school, playing and being children, and suddenly they are called over to take part in stoning a mother to death. It appears that tradition has blinded these people in the village in a highly negative way, forcing them to not question or to think of an logical reason why this possibly should not be happening. Another symbol in “The Lottery” is the pieces of paper that floated away in the breeze which symbolizes the ease of how life could be taken, but also symbolizes the failure of the village as a whole for believing and acting to tradition instead of going what right and following it. But unlike “The Lottery” Young Goodman Brown has a symbol of freedom for in which the villagers in “ The Lottery will like to have. This symbol of the United states Flag is a symbol of freedom. also , unlike “The Lottery” the setting plays an significant role in the story. The forest symbolizes devil's abode, the Puritans believed the woods to be the habitat of the devil. It can be know to be a journey of sin and darkness. That is why Faith didn’t want him to go and that is why Goodman Brown was nervous to goa and hesitant about

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