Compare and Contrast
Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil
Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil can be argued to be very similar or very different. Why, the both focus on the same topic. Evil and its appearance in the world. How it's both everywhere yet nowhere. Except one shows how it's in plain sight while the other shows how it's hidden. Too very different concepts. So are they even similar? Why yes, yes they are. It is very possible for two stories to be about the same thing but not share the same idea.
The settings in both of these stories while very similar, don't quite match up in my mind. Each story takes place in a village, but it sounds to me as if one takes place a few years or so before another. Young Goodman Brown sounds as though it takes place a bit before The Minister's Black Veil due to the lack of mentioning a bell. This makes it sounds a bit older, as if the village had yet to have such a mechanism, meanwhile The Minister's Black Veil mentions a bell almost immediately. But Young Goodman Brown does however mostly take place in a forest, not giving it the ability to have a meeting-house with a bell, like The…show more content… A man who believes in the Devil walks into Young Goodman Brown, and someone who refuses to see bad in the world walks out. Two very different things. Goodman Brown changes a lot through his story, but the Minister fails to change in even the simplest way. But is the minister even the protagonist? Some could argue (as I am about to do) that the protagonist of The Minister's Black Veil is not the minister, but his black veil. The veil may not be a living thing, but it seems to have more of an impact than Father Hooper. The veil is what caused everything. Why, if Father Hooper had wore a black hat everyone would respond differently, even if he wore a veil of yellow! But the black veil made things
