When you start your response (i.e., discussion board thread), the “Subject Line” of your initial post will be a “headline” for “Young Goodman Brown” A “headline” synthesizes the essence of the story and captures the core issue at its heart, aka the theme. For example, a headline for “Young Goodman Brown” might be “Brown Flunks Test and Loses Faith,” “Good No Match for Evil According to Brown,” “Evil Exists So Get Over It, Brown,” or “A Walk on the Wild Side Leaves Brown Bitter.” Be creative and have some fun with it.
Begin this initial post with “Dear Classmates.”
You must use specific dialogue, details and/or textual evidence from the play to support your answer. Be sure to use quotation marks when you cite your information from the texts.
Answer Only ONE of the prompts below:
Nathanial Hawthorne & “Young Goodman Brown”: Why does Goodman Brown become “a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man” after his experience in the forest? Discuss situations and circumstances that cause people in today’s society to enter a “dark forest,” as Goodman Brown did. Be sure to back up your answers with quotations from the story. Quotations do not count in your word count minimum.
Open this document ATTACHED. AND entitled, “Points to Ponder: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Problems of Sin and “Young Goodman Brown.” This document will provide you with valuable insights and background information concerning this week’s assigned reading.
VERY IMPORTANT——address the prompt. DO NOT ONLY restate the accomplishments.
You can restate and then DISCUSS A CHARATERISTIC that helped him succeed
in life and thus, supporting the claim that he deserves the title .
Please follow the instructions.
TEXTBOOK – The Norton Anthology of American
Literature
Shorter 9th
edition/two volume set
ISBN: 9780393264517
Problems of Self-Knowledge
o Read: Nathaniel Hawthorne pg. 651
o Read: “Young Goodman Brown” pg. 668
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