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Young Goodman The Allegory of the Brown Cave Nathaniel Hawthorne Plato

Plot Young Goodman Brown

Plot ● Goodman leaves his wife (faith, who wears pink bows) ● Goodman goes on a trip to the woods, where he meet a man/devil ● The devil appears as an ordinary man ● The man tells godman about the ceremony that is about to take place ● The devil gives Goodman Brown his staff(snakes), telling him that he can use it for transport to the ceremony if he decides to go ● Goodman sees a minister and other well respected people walking towards the ceremony ● Shocked, Goodman Brown swears that even though everyone else in the world has gone to the devil, for Faith’s sake he will stay true to God.

Plot continued... ● He soon hears voices coming from the ceremony and thinks he recognizes Faith’s voice. He screams her name, and a pink ribbon from her cap flutters down from the sky. ● Certain that there is no good in the world because Faith has turned to evil, he goes to the ceremony. ● At this ceremony Goodman sees all of society’s good and religious people in the fire ● A figure appears on a rock and tells the congregation to present the converts. ● Goodman Brown thinks he sees his father calling him forward but goodman’s his mother tries to hold him back ● Goodman is dragged forward to uncover another convert who is covered in a cloth ● Goodman Brown sees that the other convert is Faith. Goodman Brown tells Faith to look up to heaven and resist the devil, then suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. ● Once Goodman is back to his day-to-day life he doesn’t trust anyone anymore, he doesn’t see anyone the same.

Symbols

Symbols ● Faith: She is way more than a character, she is a very important symbol. Faith represents Goodman Brown’s belief in Christianity. Faith’s pink ribbons represent her purity and innocence, just like with Goodman Brown’s belief of Christianity. All the evil he met in the woods tried to lead him astray but he resists and stays with Faith. But, due to his experience, his view of Christianity changes, just like his view of Faith. ● The Staff: The devils staff is encircled by a snake. This alludes to the snake in the story of Adam and Eve. The snake tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. The staff makes Goodman Brown travel faster with, just like Eve, causes him to lose his innocence. The snaked staff represents temptation straying Goodman Brown away from God. ● The Woods: The woods represent the outside. It is outside the comforting village where everyone is a good Christian. It shows true nature and evil. Once Goodman Brown goes to the woods, he is looking at the village from the outside and can see all its hidden evils.

Characterization ● Goodman Brown: Goodman Brown is characterized by innocence but is corrupted. He believes in the goodness of his father and grandfather. But the devil reveals he knew both of them. He believes in the purity of Faith. But then sees her at the ceremony. He believes in the Christian nature of all townspeople. But then see them all worshiping the devil. He awakens to the evil around him and is characterized with a loss of innocence. ● Faith: Faith is characterized as the backbone of Goodman Brown. He tells himself that if faith remains godly, then he must fight temptation to maintain his faith. But when he see her at the ceremony, he believes in the evil of man. His backbone was corrupted thus he lost his innocence. ● The Devil: The devil is characterized as a regular old man. This is meant to show that all people have a capacity for evil. The devil looks like a regular person showing him as the embodiment of mankind's evil

The Allegory of the Cave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhAS OdM

Main Points In Plato’s short story The Allegory of the Cave, Plato imagines characters ● chained to a wall in a way so that all they see is the wall in front of them. Their reality is the shadows. ● One man is released to see the real world. ● He sees that the shadows were not just shadows but people and animals and ● objects with features and detail. He returns to the cave and tells the other characters chained to the wall of the ● reality of the world but to them, he was just another shadow and his voice was just an echo of nonsense. They don’t understand him and never grasp the idea of the real world but that ● doesn’t mean that the real world doesn’t exist.

Analysis A general meaning behind this short story would be that things aren’t as they ● appear. Looking deeper into it, there is a reality that most people do not see but those ● who choose to look for it will find it. Just because these people who are ‘chained’ to their reality, the shallow reality, ● do not see a higher or deeper reality does not mean it doesn’t exist. It could also be argued that Plato was implying something religious considering ● his ideas were very similar to that of the Jewish and Christian religion.

Symbols ● Prisoners - The average person ● Chains - Close mindedness ● Cave - The bubble people are enclosed in ● The Real World - The higher reality ● Shadows - The shallow reality

HOMEWORK Think about how “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Young Goodman Brown” Compare

Read the questions on the sheet being passed around. Fill in any ideas Bellwork that come to mind. Any ideas you write down can and will be used during discussion. We will begin the discussion in 7 minutes. Agenda 1. Bellwork 2. Discussion

What illustrations to society do the two stories share?

How does the author describe religion in Young Goodman Brown?

What is the significance of the name Faith and how she is portrayed?