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Irony in Young Goodman Brown
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Thesis:
Young Goodman Brown is devoted to being a Puritan but quickly realizes that there is evil in everyone and not everybody is who they appear to be.
Young Goodman Brown
Alec Martins & Antonio Bayley
Quote #1
"Faith kept me back awhile"(Hawthorne 27).
Quote #1
Verbal Irony
This is very ironic because he says his wife literally kept him back, but figuratively his faith/beliefs in God kept him back.
Analysis
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Quote #2
"Brown recognized a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser"(Hawthorne 29).
Quote #2
Situational Irony
Analysis
This is ironic because she is the one who taught Goodman Brown to believe in God and to be faithful, but she is too in the woods with the devil.
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Quote #3
"Of all the nights in the year, this one night I must tarry away from thee"(Hawthorne 26).
Situational Irony
Analysis
Young Goodman Brown is supposed to represent the common man and be religious, but he proves otherwise when he goes into the woods with the devil.
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Quote #4
“The second traveler was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features” (Hawthorne 27).
Quote #4
Situational Irony
Analysis
This is situational irony because the stranger in the woods (the devil) looks like Young Goodman Brown
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Quote #5
“There was one voice, of a young woman, uttering lamentations, yet with an uncertain sorrow, and entreating for some favor, which, perhaps, it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners, seemed to encourage her onward”(Hawthorne 31).
Situational Irony
Analysis
Faith is in the woods which signifies that Young Goodman Brown's faith is gone and he no longer believes in God.
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