`` Young Goodman Brown `` And `` The Cask Of Amontillado ``

Young Goodman Brown and A Cask of Amontillado both incorporate a gothic theme to the simple yet intricate plotline they hold. Within the two short stories, irony scatters, adding to the overall grim theme. Although they use the same 3 types of irony, the authors use them differently and similarly at the same time. In Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and A Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, there are many examples of situational irony that are used comparably in both texts. Dramatic

insightful writers of the United States were in the era of American Romanticism. Authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, began to flourish in new ideas to progress the evolution of the American literary identity. “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, respectively, illustrate protagonists on journeys to fulfill their own desires. Utilizing setting and the motif of guilt, Hawthorne and Poe create stories where a protagonist

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe have surplus amounts of irony that animate both short stories. Demented felonious antagonists and clueless protagonists cause the stories to seem similar. Montresor, a cunning and licentious human from “The Cask of Amontillado” and caring Goodman from “Young Goodman Brown” persistently use verbal irony, nevertheless, the irony is unique to each story. In “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Young Goodman Brown”

that Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe compliment and counteract this goal in their works “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, respectively, is with irony. Their masterful use of irony engages the reader in the work and invites them to consider the story and the characters’ intentions. The irony presented in “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe allows us to understand the emotions of the characters and the mood of the work

stories The Cask of Amontillado By Edgar Allen Poe and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne both revolve around the theme of evil and the path someone goes down to in order to do something evil. In The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator and protagonist Montresor brings his enemy Fortunato through a long crypt full of bones and nitre to than chain Fortunato to the wall and build a wall around him, a task described to be requiring considerable effort. In Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown runs down

stories "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe and "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Specifically it will discuss the phenomenon of evil in the human heart as it appears in these two works. Evil lives in everyone, whether they want to acknowledge it or not. These two chilling tales show two different sides of evil, but they both illustrate how evil can corrupt a person right down to their very heart and soul. The narrator, Montresor, in "The Cask of Amontillado" is so evil in

Literature Comparisons Between Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Kimberley Prescott LIT/210 08/01/2012 Sherry Salant Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Popular literature is incomplete without the names of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both of these authors lived in the same time period, yet lived very opposite lives. In fact, Poe received notoriety for criticizing Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Poe, 1847) In his career, he wrote several critiques of Hawthorne’s work

diverse as the stories themselves. Three stories will be discussed in this paper -- first, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado tells a dark tale of revenge. Next, in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, it is shown that a tradition can be dangerous when followed blindly. Finally, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown deals with the loss of innocence and faith. In The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator, Montresor, is seeking revenge on Fortunato, a man who has offended him one too many times. Montresor

narration style allows Poe’s stories to create the madness in the human mind where the narrator is terrorized by his own realizations and the horrors of what human beings are capable of. For example, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, is being narrated by the killer Montresor. As the story opens, the narrator talks to the reader as if he already knows him/her by saying, “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I

and takes off to the village where he joins up with his daughter and her children and is amazed by the changes that have taken place in his absence. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, a young husband leaves his wife which is named Faith at sunset. She goes to the streets where she calls to Goodman Brown. The author so named her Faith for the