Two short stories, “Rip Van Winkle and “Young Goodman Brown” both have a connection to the puritans lifestyle, and the way of living during the time period of the Revolution for the independence in America. Each story both have a man that attempt running away from their homes in hope to find something new or different. These two stories have similarities and differences, and the values revealed throughout the passages include a strong meaningful lesson about life.
Firstly, both tales have a variety of similarities that make up the plot, and share similar interests. In the story “Rip Van Winkle” Rip runs off into the woods away from his village and family as a way to escape the despair it caused him. In the story it states, “ Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and clamor of…show more content… There were significant morals and values that make each story individually unique, and the plots were unalike. In the story “Rip Van Winkle” the man goes off to venture in the woods and by the time he wakes up and comes back into reality it’s 20 years later. Goodman Brown goes into the past to see what humanity was like which makes him change his perspective on the world in a negative way. However, Rip begins to appreciate things more in life more after realizing that time flew by him because he never put effort into be productive and avoided hard work, which made him lost in society years later. Goodman Brown no longer looked at the people in his village the same way anymore and his point of view and personality changed, “Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting.” (Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”). After experiencing the treacherous past whether it might’ve been a dream or not, it made him lose faith in his life. Therefore, he becomes miserable for the rest of his
