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Good Morning Please sit with your groups and clear off your desks. 02/05/18 Young Goodman The Allegory of the Brown Cave Nathaniel Hawthorne Plato Plot Young Goodman Brown Plot Goodman leaves his wife (faith, who wears pink bows)

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Good Morning

Please sit with your groups and clear off your desks.

02/05/18

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Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne The Allegory of the Cave Plato

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Plot

Young Goodman Brown

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Plot

Goodman leaves his wife (faith, who wears pink bows)
Goodman goes on a trip to the woods, where he meet a man/devil
The devil appears as an ordinary man
The man tells godman about the ceremony that is about to take

place

The devil gives Goodman Brown his staff(snakes), telling him that

he can use it for transport to the ceremony if he decides to go

Goodman sees a minister and other well respected people

walking towards the ceremony

Shocked, Goodman Brown swears that even though everyone else

in the world has gone to the devil, for Faith’s sake he will stay true to God.

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Plot continued...

He soon hears voices coming from the ceremony and thinks he recognizes Faith’s
voice. He screams her name, and a pink ribbon from her cap flutters down from the

sky.

Certain that there is no good in the world because Faith has turned to evil, he goes

to the ceremony.

At this ceremony Goodman sees all of society’s good and religious people in the fire
A figure appears on a rock and tells the congregation to present the converts.
Goodman Brown thinks he sees his father calling him forward but goodman’s his

mother tries to hold him back

Goodman is dragged forward to uncover another convert who is covered in a cloth
Goodman Brown sees that the other convert is Faith. Goodman Brown tells Faith to

look up to heaven and resist the devil, then suddenly finds himself alone in the forest.

Once Goodman is back to his day-to-day life he doesn’t trust anyone anymore, he

doesn’t see anyone the same.

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Symbols

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Symbols

Faith: She is way more than a character, she is a very important symbol. Faith

represents Goodman Brown’s belief in Christianity. Faith’s pink ribbons represent her purity and innocence, just like with Goodman Brown’s belief of Christianity. All the evil he met in the woods tried to lead him astray but he resists and stays with Faith. But, due to his experience, his view of Christianity changes, just like his view of Faith.

The Staff: The devils staff is encircled by a snake. This alludes to the snake in the

story of Adam and Eve. The snake tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. The staff makes Goodman Brown travel faster with, just like Eve, causes him to lose his

innocence. The snaked staff represents temptation straying Goodman Brown away

from God.

The Woods: The woods represent the outside. It is outside the comforting village

where everyone is a good Christian. It shows true nature and evil. Once Goodman Brown goes to the woods, he is looking at the village from the outside and can see all its hidden evils.

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Characterization

Goodman Brown: Goodman Brown is characterized by innocence but is corrupted.

He believes in the goodness of his father and grandfather. But the devil reveals he knew both of them. He believes in the purity of Faith. But then sees her at the

ceremony. He believes in the Christian nature of all townspeople. But then see them

all worshiping the devil. He awakens to the evil around him and is characterized with a loss of innocence.

Faith: Faith is characterized as the backbone of Goodman Brown. He tells himself

that if faith remains godly, then he must fight temptation to maintain his faith. But when he see her at the ceremony, he believes in the evil of man. His backbone was corrupted thus he lost his innocence.

The Devil: The devil is characterized as a regular old man. This is meant to show that

all people have a capacity for evil. The devil looks like a regular person showing him as the embodiment of mankind's evil

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The Allegory of the Cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhAS OdM

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Main Points

In Plato’s short story The Allegory of the Cave, Plato imagines characters

chained to a wall in a way so that all they see is the wall in front of them.

Their reality is the shadows.
One man is released to see the real world.
He sees that the shadows were not just shadows but people and animals and
bjects with features and detail.
He returns to the cave and tells the other characters chained to the wall of the

reality of the world but to them, he was just another shadow and his voice was just an echo of nonsense.

They don’t understand him and never grasp the idea of the real world but that

doesn’t mean that the real world doesn’t exist.

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Analysis

A general meaning behind this short story would be that things aren’t as they

appear.

Looking deeper into it, there is a reality that most people do not see but those

who choose to look for it will find it.

Just because these people who are ‘chained’ to their reality, the shallow reality,

do not see a higher or deeper reality does not mean it doesn’t exist.

It could also be argued that Plato was implying something religious considering

his ideas were very similar to that of the Jewish and Christian religion.

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Symbols

Prisoners - The average person
Chains - Close mindedness
Cave - The bubble people are enclosed in
The Real World - The higher reality
Shadows - The shallow reality

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HOMEWORK

Think about how “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Young Goodman Brown” Compare

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Bellwork

Read the questions on the sheet being passed around. Fill in any ideas that come to mind. Any ideas you write down can and will be used during discussion. We will begin the discussion in 7 minutes.

Agenda 1. Bellwork 2. Discussion

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What illustrations to society do the two stories share?

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How does the author describe religion in Young Goodman Brown?

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What is the significance of the name Faith and how she is portrayed?