External and Internal Conflict in Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown Essay

External and inside Conflict in Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthornes short chronicle Young Goodman Brown manifests a duality of contrast both an outer conflict and an internal conflict. It is the purpose of this essay to explore both types of conflict as manifested in the story. In the opening lines of the tale there is a compulsion, representing internal conflict, indicated on the part of both the protagonist and his wife trustfulness De best heart, whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, prythee, put onward your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight. A unaccompanied woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that shes afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, in effect(p) husband, of every nights in the year My love and my Faith, replied young Goodman Brown, of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back a gain, must needs be make twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months wed And Faith, hopeful that the compulsion will not get the best of her during the night, responds past God bless you said Faith, with the pink ribbons, and may you find all well, when you come back. Q.D. Leavis says in Hawthorne as Poet that It is a journey he takes under(a) compulsion, and it should not escape us that she tries to stop him because she is under a equivalent compulsion to go on a journey herself (36). So the of import male and female characters are manifesting similar compulsions toward evil against which they must struggle. And these are the main in... ...ung Goodman Brown. And both strands come together at the baptismal observation at the climax of the story where Goodman resolves his conflicts favorably. WORKS CITED Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown. 1835. http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.h tml Lang, H.J. How Ambiguous is Hawthorne? In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Leavis, Q.D. Hawthorne as Poet. In Hawthorne A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by A.N. Kaul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Martin, Terence Six Tales. In Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York Twayne Publishers Inc., 1965. Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Man, His Tales and Romances. New York Continuum Publishing Co., 1989.