A Stranger in the Wood
Nathanel Hawthorns "Young goodman brown" holds the story of a young puritan man who decides to take a walk on the wild side and vist a coven of witches in the middle of the night. In the beging of this short story the reader is confronted with a mysterious and shady figure of a stranger who helps Brown along his path to damnation. Although never stated outright, the stranger is shown to use to be the devil throught Hawthorns use of elements of literature such as, foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism.
The first time in the story when Hawthron uses the elements of literature to clue in the reader to the strangers real identity is when Brown is first begining his trek throught the forest and begins to get frightened about indians hiding in the forest. "There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree,' said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him as he added, 'What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow" (Hawthorn 874). In......
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