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Both the narrators in “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” and “Young Goodman Brown” have a somewhat detached relationship with the characters and the actions in their respective...

1. At this point in "The Lord of the Flies," the boys have created a set of rules and have begun a system necessary for survival. Ralph has been voted chief and wants the boys to work on collecting...

Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" are comparable in how they both detail the psychological toll of coming to terms with versions of reality. In...

Faith's pink ribbons in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" essentially represent innocence, and serve as a contrast to Faith's apparent lack of moral soundness. Pink is traditionally...

The woods in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" hold a transformative power, a Romantic trope that is often seen in literature of this time period. In the short story, we see an young man...