Evil YGB and The Lottery

            Have you ever really thought about where evil exists? Evil is all around us each and every day. Evil is in us, our friends, our parents, etc. Sometimes the evil is not noticeable, but it still lies in the person. Sometimes you might think someone is something that they really are not. In "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery", "evil lurking behind a genteel or reassuring surface" is shown in three ways: Symbolism of Names, Objects, and Acts.
             In "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery", both of these short stories use symbols of names as marks of evil. In "Young Goodman Brown", Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the names Faith and Young Goodman Brown as the sign of nice, and respectable people. In "The Lottery", Jackson uses the name Mr. Summers as a symbol of Summer when the lottery was held. In "Young Goodman Brown", Faith is used to express a religious and faithful person to her Christianity as implied in the short story. "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named" (187). Young Goodman Brown uses Faith's name as a protectant of his soul and body. He uses Faith's name to resolve moments with the Devil, to strengthen him. In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses the name Mr. Graves as a symbol or sign of death. Mr. Graves runs the Lottery throughout the short story. Mr. Graves is the symbol of killing in the lottery. Even though Mr. Summers ran the lottery, Mr. Graves had say over him. In "Young Goodman Brown", Young Goodman Brown is expressed as a Young, good faithful man. He loves his wife, Faith. "My love and my Faith" (187). In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses the name Hutchinson as a symbol of a hutch, sort of like a box. Through the sumbolism of the name, when she picked the black dot out of the box, we knew that it was going to happen. These types of Symbolism represent evil in a way.
             In these two stories, there is a lot of symbolism through acts. Two examples of types of evil that we encounter are evils through Satanism and the evil in mankind.