Difference between revisions of "Young Goodman Brown"
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'''''Young Goodman Brown''''' is a short story written by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil. | '''''Young Goodman Brown''''' is a short story written by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil. | ||
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+ | ==Status== | ||
+ | I own this story in a compilation book and have read it. | ||
==Review== | ==Review== | ||
− | + | ===Good=== | |
+ | * I like how the Puritan is a crybaby, and how it turns out that pretty much everybody is a little evil after all. | ||
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+ | ===Bad=== | ||
+ | * The moral, don't be too much of a goody-goody or you'll waste your whole life being suspicious of others, is a nice suggestion, but it's so ham-fisted, it's annoying. | ||
+ | * The [[Hark a Vagrant]] comic is way better. | ||
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+ | ===Ugly=== | ||
+ | * The ending is a bit crazy. Why is everyone in the entire town a Satan worshiper? And what's with the disappearing act? Did Brown just have a nervous breakdown? | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
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* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 gutenberg.org/ebooks/512] - Project Gutenberg. | * [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 gutenberg.org/ebooks/512] - Project Gutenberg. | ||
* [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388 harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388] - Hark a Vagrant comic strip. | * [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388 harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388] - Hark a Vagrant comic strip. | ||
+ | * [https://librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029 librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029] - LibriVox. | ||
+ | * [https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-002 librivox.org/short-story-collection-002] - LibriVox. | ||
[[Category: Books]] | [[Category: Books]] | ||
− | [[Category: Short | + | [[Category: Short Stories]] |
[[Category: Fiction]] | [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
[[Category: Religion]] | [[Category: Religion]] | ||
[[Category: Books I've Read]] | [[Category: Books I've Read]] |
Revision as of 21:45, 31 July 2018
Young Goodman Brown is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1835. The story is about a sissy Puritan who has a very black and white moral outlook on life, and while entertaining the idea of maybe doing just a little bit of evil for fun, finds out that all the people he's always looked up to as moral luminaries are actually really evil.
Status
I own this story in a compilation book and have read it.
Review
Good
- I like how the Puritan is a crybaby, and how it turns out that pretty much everybody is a little evil after all.
Bad
- The moral, don't be too much of a goody-goody or you'll waste your whole life being suspicious of others, is a nice suggestion, but it's so ham-fisted, it's annoying.
- The Hark a Vagrant comic is way better.
Ugly
- The ending is a bit crazy. Why is everyone in the entire town a Satan worshiper? And what's with the disappearing act? Did Brown just have a nervous breakdown?
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Goodman_Brown - Wikipedia.
- gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 - Project Gutenberg.
- harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=388 - Hark a Vagrant comic strip.
- librivox.org/short-ghost-and-horror-collection-029 - LibriVox.
- librivox.org/short-story-collection-002 - LibriVox.