Young Good Man Brown
The setting of "Young Good Man Brown"
Where is Salem and the forest outside Salem?
Haunted by superstition and wants to be buried with a mirror.
Who is the Grandmother?
Where was the location of Georgia's birthmark?
The Center of Georgia’s left cheek.
Birth
1804; Salem, Massachusets
What great classic did he write?
The Scarlet Letter
Innocents
What does the Pink Ribbon symbolize?
The setting.
When was one night in September?
The Setting?
When was the 18th century (1700’s)?
How did the Nathaniel's family feel about Salem?
They felt they had been cursed due to the connection with William Hathorn and the Salem Witch Trials.
How did he imbed his own life in The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel worked in a custom house for a while. The Narrator who writes of a woman in the Puritan times sounds just like Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The main themes of this story.
What are disillusionment, sin, and hypocrisy?
Frank-hearted, proud, gentle-spirited, refined, educated, harbors a high abstraction and ambition.
How is the Stranger described?
The brilliant yet misguided scientist and the protagonist of the story who’s experiments and creations have made him famous in the scientific community.
Who is Alymer?
To distance himself from his ancestors.
Why did Nathaniel change the spelling of his last name from Hathorn to Hawthorn?
In what two ways was he different from the Transcendentalists?
More on storytelling.
Darker view on human nature.
Hypocrites Brown sees along the way.
(Must list all and the group they are in)
Who are the Salem Puritan Council board members, church leaders, the Governor’s wife and her friends, honorable wives, widows, Spinsters, virgins, Decon Ducan, and the Minister?
The location of the home symbolizes what?
“This precarious location of the house represents the danger of being too close to nature, which is unpredictable and often unsafe. It becomes clear as we discuss symbolism in the story that the consistent theme is a lack of safety, regardless of one's life choices.”
Aylmer’s assistant.
Who was Aminadab?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin Pierce, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Who were some of Hawthorn’s friends/aquantences who achieved great fame in life?
What are supernatural forces used for in stories?
It usually comes in when there is an issue in bridging the present lagitamately with the past.
The allegory of the story.
What are the devil leading man to the evil within himself and the inevitability of sin seen as in this story?
What makes the symbolism particularly powerful?
“The symbolism in the story is even more powerful because of the lack of names for all the characters; when readers are held at arm's length from nameless characters, it is easier to focus on a story's symbols and their meaning.”
The Foolishness of striving for perfection.
What is the themes of this story?
How did his father’s family help his family after his dad died?
They did nothing to help Nathainel and his family.
What did Hawthorne do before most other American writers?
Explore the hidden motivations of his characters.