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Compare And Contrast The Cask Of Amontillado And Young Goodman Brown

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The Cask of Amontillado and Young Goodman Brown The Cask of Amontillado and Young Goodman Brown are short stories incorporating an evil trait. Both of these short stories represent the evil capability mankind has. These characters allow evil to overcome them and changing who these characters truly are. This phenomenon represents that mankind is capable to become evil and allow evil to weakened them. The Young Goodman Brown was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in 1835. The short story is taking place in Puritan, New England and follows the young Goodman Brown. It begins with Brown leaving his wife, Faith, to go on a journey into the forest. She begs that he stays with her, but he demands that he must go. While on his journey he first meets with an elderly man with a black serpent-shaped staff. Brown claims that he is embarrassed to even have meet him but the man proclaims that he has meet with his family and other people in the community. The two eventually these two come across Goody Cloyse, an older woman that reveals that she is a witch. The conversation also reveals that this man is the devil and he is hosting a ceremony. Brown declares …show more content…

The story opens with Montresor explaining that he feels disrespected by Fortunato and he is planning on taking revenge. During the carnival, Montresor approaches Fortunato to taste some wine, in which Fortunato cannot resist. Montresor and Fortunato go into Montresor’s vaults. While traveling through the vaults Fortunato is aggravated by the setting and begins to cough. Montresor insists on returning but Fortunato is determined to taste the wine. Heading further into the vault, Montresor begins to chain Fortunato, he begins trapping Fortunato inside. Fortunato is helplessly terrified, and begins to think Montresor is playing a game on him but Montresor is not playing. Montresor finishes the wall and claims that Fortunato was never

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