The setting in both, "Young Goodman Brown" and "Heart of Darkness" changes the worldview of the central characters leading to outward and inward isolation. ... In Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Marlow only wants a job and to travel the world. ... Goodman Brown on the other hand was wholeheartedly aware of himself losing grip of his rope that connected his innocence to his heart. ... In "Heart of Darkness," the jungle controls all who enters it. ... The silence, the forest, all the darkness, and river for miles is their confinement. ...

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As the narrative voice says when referring to Chillingworth's discovery of the Dimmesdale's secret, "All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving!" ... For example, he grasps a "dark, flabby leaf found near a grave." All of this darkness denotes the presence of evil. ...

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, the author uses a dark setting, religious symbolism, and vivid imagery to portray that no one is sin free, and evil lies within everyone. ... Although one may seem pure on the surface, everyone battles with the darkness inside them. This story pulls at one's heart's strings, and makes one analyze the good and evil that lies within during their religious fight. ... " This shows that even though the road may seem dark, that doesn't mean it is. ... In the story, Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne uses a dark setting, religious sy...

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It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own.'' ... In the wording and purport of what Hawthorne writes, the forest is always dark, dark and dark. ... "; The forest is so dark that the author has to describe it over and over. ... It is the dark side of the human beings. ...

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This creed leads Brown into the dark forest to confront evil. ... Perhaps he made a subconscious pact to meet with the devil, his darkness. ... His dark gift leads him to the demonic ceremony that takes place in the forest. ... The cold dew that was sprinkled on his cheek symbolizes the coldness that began to grip his heart. ... Hawthorne's usage of lightness and darkness show there is no light without dark, no love without hate, no saint without sin. ...

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The forest is like a dark and mysterious place where a dark creature, the "Black Man," lives. ... He gets reed of the pain by telling everyone about how he sinned with Hester, which takes away the burden on his heart. ... One major theme of The Scarlet Letter is that a dark hidden secret, unless the secret is told to others, causes pain and suffering to the beholder. ... Throughout the story Dimmesdale is haunted by his dark secret, even in his every breath. ...

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With a penitent heart, Hester travels through the story becoming only a shadow of her former passionate loving self. ... First, the forest can symbolize darkness and evil. ... Adjective: Dark: Darkness is associated with concealment, evil, and deception. For example, Hester and Dimmesdale commit adultery and continue to meet in the dark forest. ... Chillingworth is always associated with darkness. ...

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The only light in the dark atmosphere is a rosebush growing by the prison door. ... Meanwhile, venerable Reverend Dimmesdale's body starts to waste away from a mysterious heart condition. ... He does this, however, in the pitch-black darkness of the night, so the situation is not exactly the same. ... "And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two. ... Dimmesdale clutches his heart instinctively and admits to Hester that he hat...

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Judge Me Not, Love Me, Seek No Revenge Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers on the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. ... Cillingworth devotes his life to revenge, which leads him to a state of darkness. ... He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart." (1345) This statement shows how demonic Chillingworth has become, and he will follow them to the ends of the earth to fulfill his longing for vengeance. ... The people of the town saw her as a teaching tool, "the young and pure would be ta...

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The description of Salem village during Puritan times begins when Goodman Brown enters unfamiliar and dark forest. ... Also, it represents deception and obscurity of Goodman's heart; his mind seems filled with malevolent and dreary thoughts. ... He cannot confront the dread of evil in his heart, and chooses to reject all society. ...

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Nature, specifically the wind, forest, and the darkness of the evening symbolizes evil and sinfulness. The wind was howling and there is a dark cloud, which seems to cover up heaven. ... This is an example of Brown choosing to follow his head rather than his heart. Had he followed his heart, he may have still lived a life filled with happiness and love. If he followed his heart, he would have been able to sympathize with the community's weaknesses, but instead, he listens to his head and exiles himself from the community because he thinks they are a bunch of heathens. ...

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This scene is left to be determined by the reader, but later in the novel, the minister is seen clutching his heart several times. ... Although the scarlet "A" keeps her in the dark, she also is a symbol of it. ... It is one piece of beauty in this dark, dull atmosphere. ... (Fossum 13) The forest is symbolic of nature and contains aspects of both light and dark. ... The dark aspect of the woods can be shown through the black man that Pearl sees, who was the people's symbol for the devil. ...

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But little did the community know what contradictive ness, what dark secret Mr. ... It was that same intellect, powerful speeches, contradictive ness, and dark secret that let him get away with committing adultery and at the same time wilt away like a dying flower. ... Dimmesdale said " Be not silent from any mistakes pity and tenderness for him; for believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, one thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life. ... Dimmesdale knew that all Hester had to do was speak ...

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She calles him "dearest heart" and "dear husband" which lets me know that he Goodman Brown must be a very caring and loving husband to his wife Faith and therefore must be a very caring and loving man in general. ... The setting is mostly located in a dark, gloomy forest. Hawthorne is able to create a dark gloomy setting through little description. The encounter of Goodman Brown with the villagers and his wife is the time when the setting is greatly explained with words such as "shadow", "dark", "blazing" "candles" etc. Related to these words, the atmosphere is very gloomy and dark as well ...

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Even though Chillingworth is the most reasonable sinner, he has stolen Hester Prynne youth, another sin Chillingworth did was tricking the heart of a fellow mate and sacrificing a friendship to satisfy his own selfishness, and he also has lied to a society of Puritans which is a huge sin because in the Puritans' eyes committing a terrible sin is failing to admit to it. Roger Chillingworth is twisted and in the puritans society he was consider a dark soul. ... " ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Roger Chillingworth has committed many sins that he hasn't shared with the public, he keeps...

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Sin and its Effects on Dimmesdale and Hester Imagine going through your life carrying only a deep, dark secret with you. ... By her wearing her A on the outside of her heart, it does not stay there unlike Dimmesdale who keeps his tucked in deep inside so no one could see. ... He keeps his hand over his heart to hide where his guilt of his sine shines through. ... Dimmesdale exhibited no system of positive and vivacious suffering, except that, as little Pearl had remarked, he kept his hand over his heart." ...

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One day, Chillingworth brought a bunch of dark herbs to the reverends room. When the reverend asked Chillingworth from where did he get those he said he "found them on a grave, which bore no tombstone," and also added that "they grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime." ... Although he knew that the visions were not real, he still had to deal with the guilt and shame that dwelled in his heart and mind. ... His heart began to pain him so bad that he let out a loud scream. ...

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She followed her heart and therefore dealt with the consequences that soon followed. ... Although the scarlet letter burned a hole to her heart, Hester wears it and never denies it, which shows a true strength from within. ... He is acting as a leech, sucking away at Dimmesdale's life, trying to pry into all of his deep, dark secrets. ... Dimmesdale's health is quickly going down the drain and he is having heart trouble, not to mention various other health complications. ... They both exchange some words, but Chillingworth simply leaves Hester with the idea that this horrible thing h...

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While Dimmesdale awaited her appeal, he placed his hand over his heart "a habit the reader will recognize further through the novel. ... Unlike Hester, however, he has no audience, and even if someone were to see him, they would not recognize him in the darkness. ...

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Hester "was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance... she had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off sunshine with a gleam" (46). ... Her vulnerability to the crowd of Puritan observers is challenging, and Hester holds the child to her heart, a symbolic comparison between the child and the scarlet letter, suggesting that they are both connected. ...

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He holds this huge secret inside of him, which does nothing but tear away at his heart and mind. ... "But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it." ...

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You can't be happy and bright all the time like Emerson and Thoreau pretend to be, and you can't always be dark and pessimistic like Melville and Hawthorne. ... You don't have to go into nature to find your true self you just have to listen to your heart or your intuition. ... We all have something dark in our pasts that we hide from people. ...

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Dimmesdale explains the darkness of Chillingworth's sins to Hester: "' We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. ... He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. ... 'What we did had a consecration of its own '" (155-156) This quote illustrates the depth and darkness of Chillingworth's sin. ...

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He went into a cocoon himself working in the dark, trying to ignore the ticking of all the clocks around him and he drank a lot. ... Owen envied the butterflies freedom of flight soaring high in the sunny sky wishing he could escape the dark dreary clock shop for his own sense of freedom and light. ... When Owen was informed of Annie's engagement to Robert Danforth his heart broke. ... Completing his dream somehow healed Owen's heart and spirit. ... When the butterfly tried to return to Owen he responded, "Thou has gone forth out of thy master's heart. ...

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"And so, Hester, I drew thee into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there!" ... This usually led him to "some pretty dark conclusions about the world, man, society and their relationships to each other" (preface p1). ... He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of the human heart" (p273-274). ...

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