Hawthorne’s Style in Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Hawthornes Style in Young Goodman Brown The musical mode is how speakers or writers record whatever it is that they say (Abrams 303). This essay will present an analysis of the style found in Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown. First of all, the reader can notice right away that Hawthorne writes in a well-read and cultivated style, avoiding the use of profanity, vernacular language, or words offensive to the ear. Consider his precise word excerption from an enormous vocabulary They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and persevere in the path, discoursing so aptly, that his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor, than to be suggested by himself. As they went, he plucked a branch of maple, to serve for a walking-stick, and began to strip it of the twigs and little boughs, which were wet with evening dew Even the most excited outburst in the entire story does not contain either language even remotely displeasing or uncultivated Ha ha ha roared Goodman Brown, when the wind laughed at him. Let us reveal which will laugh loudest Think not to frighten me with your deviltry become witch, come wizard, come Indian powwow, come devil himself and here comes Goodman Brown. You whitethorn as well fear him as he fear you though he has obviously read widely, where are the references to the works Hawthorne has enjoyed? It is a blow of his style in Young Goodman Brown that he does not adjoin to a single author or literary work. It would be so easy for him to do, and yet he restrains himself for whatever literary reason. Hawthornes style in this tale is, without a doubt, imaginative. Consider his description of the second traveller and his staff It was now deep dusk in the forest, and deepest in that let out of it where these two were journeying. As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveler was about fifty years old, apparently in the same sheer(a) of l ife as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still, they might have been taken for father and son. And yet, though the elder person was as simply raiment as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an inexpressible air of one who knew the world, and would not have felt abashed at the governors dinner-table, or in King Williams court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither.