Of Witchcraft In Young Goodman Brown And Washington...

In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown and Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle share a common ground of witchcraft and a man vs man inner conflict of the unknown. We witness our two protagonist Goodman Brown and Rip endure life or death situations and what they conquer throughout their self-entitlement. Firstly, we see the journey of young, newly wedded Goodman Brown, and his wife Faith. A Puritan believed couple, who’s in the mindset of being set for life all because of Faith being an Elite, thus leading to Goodman Brown going into the woods and fighting evil to be recognized as one of the Elites as well (1). He is convinced to leave Faith alone for the night as his attempt was to be with her even after death do them apart, yet she†¦show more content†¦He quickly scurried back to the streets of Salem (9), there he sees the townspeople in their natural environment. Praying, practicing their faith, even dictating catechism to the younglings, but Goodman Brown was convinced that what he saw was not a dream. When he emerges home his wife greets him with joy after his late-night adventure, yet after what he saw, he simply walked away and gave her the cold shoulder. In theory, Goodman Brown is affected and convinced that the late-night ritual did happen and pushes everyone around him away and dies a lonely, bitter old man. In comparison to Rip Van Winkle, who is a very well-liked man in his community (3), but faces the usual marriage conflict of his wife constantly nagging and him looking for a way to escape (4). He travels first with his dog Wolf to the inn, where he goes to listen to Nicholas Vedder and his group discus the political distress they feel (4). Not soon after his wife would call and explicitly demand her husband go back home immediately. Instead Rip unconsciously dragged himself to the highest point of the Kaatskill mountains, where he perused his favorite sport of squirrel shooting (5). After a long nap, he sees a short, square built old fellow, who asked for his help in lifting the heavy keg towards the top of the mountain on a long and rocky road until they see a hollow, amphitheater. Once inside an odd-looking bunch of