Young Goodman Brown and The Fall of the House of Usher

While reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", I could not help felt constant fear. Its roots may come from the "ghost forest" deep inside the dark environment of the story, or the mysterious "devil" of Brown - companion. As I read it, I came up with another story about the collapse of Usher's house in Edgar Allan Poe. In the story of Poe, when he explained the reunion of two friends at "Arthur's House", he was able to feel the same spiritual impulses. With "window like eyes" and "sad impression" in the mansion, Poe wasted Gothic style wasting time.

In this article, I will explain three pieces, "Rip Van Winkle", "Young Goodman Brown", and "The Usher of the House". With all the works, the hero enters nature, the garden of Eden is set to satisfy the power of evil. He called this "skepticism like paradise" or "to recognize the retreat from heavenly ideals from the limits of human knowledge" (249). Most critics explain these works as portraits of American experiences, but I admit that humans do not shift from ignorance to knowledge, but he can not understand everything. In the chapter 'Young Goodman Brown', Haha wrote that the forest was once a garden of Eden, but was contaminated by a snake (an old man) who later controlled the wilderness. Literally and metaphorically, the deviation of Brown's belief is a journey of uncertainty, and his knowledge will be tried.

Comparing the fall of King Arthur, young Goodman Brown, and Lip Van Winkel, in the early 18th century American literature began the style revolution with the next writer. The author regarded nature as symbolism and started to look at society as a source of sin. What is emphasized in most stories is to give the reader a fresh perspective on their lives and society as a whole. Three stories using this special technique are Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of Arthur", Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle".