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Romanticism In Young Goodman Brown And The Falling The House Of Usher

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American authors created many great novels through their different types of writing. Dark Romanticism is a type of writing which creates gloomy, fictional stories exposing the wickedness of humans. Some of the most famous stories of Dark Romanticism are Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Falling of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Transcendentalism is the opposite style of writing to Dark Romanticism as it focuses on the goodness of humans and nature. The most famous essays of Transcendentalism are Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walden by Henry David Thoreau. A third type of writing is Realism which is an attempt to reflect everyday life as it really existed during the time that the novel was set in. Two well-known …show more content…

In Realism, the setting produces the storyline by creating different situations. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck Finn said, “I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn’t budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me- and then there warn’t no raft in sight; you couldn’t see twenty yards”(Twain 78). In this scene, Huck Finn gets separated from Jim. The setting creates a problem for these two main characters. The fog causes the characters, Huck and Jim, not to be able to see anything in front of them. At that moment, the rope that connected the raft and the canoe broke from the current causing the two characters to be separated. The setting which included the fog and the current caused an anxious moment for Huck and Jim. Another incident happened when, Huck said, “We could hear her pounding along, but we didn’t see her good till she was close”(91). This is also another incident of the fog causing problems for both Huck and Jim. In this situation, Jim and Huck can hear but not see a large boat until it is too late and they jump into the water becoming lost and separated again. Again the setting has changed the way that story evolves in the novel. These situation give Huck a better understanding of Jim as a friend since Huck misses him especially when they

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While passing the town, Huck preserves Jim's freedom by saying his family has smallpox to the patrol and to not come near the raft (68). Jim remarks that he will never forget Huck’s kindness. Jim’s love for Huck, however, extends past their friendship to the relationship of father and

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