Throughout works of literature, authors use many different techniques to help enhance a reader’s experience. It is an author’s goal to make the work not just words on a page, but to take readers into their work as if he or she was in the context themselves. One of the ways authors can accomplish this is by using literary devices. By using literary devices, authors can develop their theme. After reading the plot is when the theme becomes more evident. Without the theme, readers are unable to connect
The Ambiguity in “Young Goodman Brown” The literary critics agree that there is considerable ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” This essay intends to illustrate the previous statement and to analyze the cause of this ambiguity. Henry James in Hawthorne, when discussing “Young Goodman Brown” comments on how imaginative it is, then mentions how allegorical Hawthorne is, and how allegory should be expressed clearly: I frankly confess that I have
problem. Peter Conn in “Finding a Voice in an New Nation” makes a statement regarding Hawthorne’s ambiguity: Almost all of Hawthorne’s finest stories are remote in time or place. The glare of contemporary reality immobillized his imagination. He required shadows and half-light, and he sought a nervous equilibrium in ambiguity. . . . Where traditional allegory was secured in certitude, however, Hawthorne’s allegorical proceedings yield only restlessness and doubt. The stable
of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern. Mastering literature is an art that can only be perfected with lots of practice and understanding memory, symbol, and pattern; this only enhances the reading and provokes the reader to analyze the text in a more productive way. Once you become a more avid reader you will be privileged to make comparisons, connections, and your own conclusion from the literary work you’re reading with certain aspects of many different literary works
various sorts, because he repeatedly confuses the issues by shying sway from them, because he often talks of his fiction in terms of misty legends and faded blooms, because, in short, he seems frequently to disclaim his own vital interests, we must take care not to lose from sight those