Worn Path And Young Goodman Brown Essay, Research Paper

In comparing and contrasting the stories ?Worn Path? and ?Young Goodman

Brown?. Several things come to mind . We see that both authors use a lot of

symbolism as well as foreshadowing. Also, Both stories take place in the forest

or along a path. In the story ?Worn Path? the author makes use of symbolism

in diffident ways. The most obvious example is that the path, itself ,

symbolizes the old women. She is desc- ribed as bent , crooked, old and wore

out. This description would also fit the well wore path that she travels so

often. In the story ?Young GoodMan Brown? the author makes reference to the

appearance of the fellow-traveler and his likeness to Young GoodMann Brown. It

is hinted that the fellow- traveler symbolizes the Devil. We can associate this

as the evil that lies within us all. Both authors use foreshadowing throughout

the stories to let us know what is to come. One example of foreshadowing is When

the fellow-traveler in ?Young Goodman Brown? is walking with a cane that

looks like a snake. This hints to the evil that is to follow. A another example

is when the old woman speaks of how hard the path is to travel. This lets us

know that she will face many hardship along the way. In conclusion, the stories

?Worn Path? and ?Young GoodMan Brown? contain numerous like similarities

and differences. One could interpret these in many different ways. However the

stories seem to share more likenesses than differed.