![]() Instead, he continued following the old man. Nevertheless, he did not go back to his village. He regarded the old man whom he first met in the forest as the devil. Brown-the descendant of “ a race of honest men and good Christians ” (Baym, 1989: 1112)-in fact felt insecure to follow that old man, because he thought that the congregation in the forest were the followers of the devil. There, he met a so-called fifty-year-old man who took him to a certain place in the forest where there would be an ‘ordination’ and Brown would be ordained to be one of the members of the man’s congregation. In “Young Goodman Brown”, the main character-Brown-left his wife whom he married just for three months, to do an “errand” to the forest. After that, I will elaborate the similarities and the differences I found in the two stories. First, I will analyze the story one by one. This paper will compare Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going? Where have you been?” Hawthorne’s story belongs to the Romantic Period while Oates’ belongs to the Postmodern Period. AND “WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?” By Nana Podungge ![]()
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