cask of amontillado and young goodman brown
"The Cask of Amontillado" and "Young Goodman Brown" ENC 1102The Romantic Movement, which originated in Germany but quickly spread to England, France, and beyond, reached America around the year 1820. Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," are both novels from the Romantic Period. Both "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Young Goodman Brown," as well as all Romantic stories, contain at least one of the following: items of Gothicism, items of the Grotesque, or items from Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. First, both Poe and Hawthorne incorporate a few devices of Gothicism into their story. Both "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Young Goodman Brown" has an unusual or wild setting. Poe and Hawthorne also give their main characters hidden secrets, some that are known from the start, and some that are not yet revealed. In Poe's story, the reader is shown the wild and fantastic settings of both the carnival and Montr
Montresor felt that he was justified in his decision to kill Fortunato because of the insults spoken against him. Both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe incorporate a mixture of humor and horror into their short stories. Hawthorne creates an abnormality in goodman Brown when the reader along with the narrator asks, "Had goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting?" (196). Even so, to the reader's dismay they find a revelation in the story, and they also find out that the townspeople including Faith (goodman Brown's wife), all lead dark, secret lives. Young goodman Brown's Id stands out plain as day, he fears that the town is not who they say they are and that they all lead secret l!ives. Montresor and the reader are the only people who know what is going to happen to the poor Fortunato. Freudian criticism states that the meaning of a literary work lies in the author's psyche, or their Id, Ego, and Superego. Later in the story, the reader comes to find ou!t that the devil is right at young goodman Brown's elbow. He now hides behind his belief that all of humanity is evil, and that "evil is the way of the world. Goodman Brown feels disgusted and shameful because he never saw who the townspeople really were; he only saw them the way that he wanted to see them. Montresor's secrets are the catacombs, and the bodies that reside in them, which will also in time include Fortunato's. Secondly, the Romantic story often will have the character demonstrating characteristics of the Grotesque. Poe demonstrates this device when Montresor and Fortunato are walking in the catacombs, and Fortunato says, "Enough, the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me.
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