Category Archives: Response 8

The yellow wallpaper is a much more modern story in the sense of the horror that is entailed. The way the room is described and  how the wife sees a women crawling through the walls, combined with the creepy atmosphere … Continue reading →

Briana Estrada “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of a young man still freshly married to his seemingly pure and good wife named ‘Faith’ and who is on some type of personal journey for one night. In … Continue reading →

This text to me started off very gothic and it wasn’t quite what i had expected. Reading the story and setting about the old house and queer and ere settings originally lead me to believe that this story was going … Continue reading →

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is another gothic story that we have read and discussed in class. To me it’s main gothic theme is temptation and betrayal. I say this because in the story Brown knows all these people … Continue reading →

The short story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins views a greater and a darker version of how the Gothic genre can affect an individual person. The narrator herself experiences extreme isolation as we have encountered in all the previous Gothic … Continue reading →

Earlyer this week we had read a short story called “Young Goodman Brown”by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about a devout man in his religon, and one night he sts off on a journey into the woods, which thats odd as Brown … Continue reading →

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story that seems to be connected to feminism in the 19th century. It makes it a good Gothic literature because it focuses on the issue around how woman are viewed and … Continue reading →

This story has a similar theme compared to the other gothic stories which is isolation and sanity. Isolation because the narrator in the story is stuck inside the house because of her husband. Sanity because she is seeing so many … Continue reading →

So this story starts like many other stories of the gothic genre. The difference with story however is that the name of the protagonist is never mentioned in the story. Another thing I noticed is that like many other gothic stories, this brings out a … Continue reading →

When reading Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many gothic themes throughout the text like isolation, good versus evil, doubt and morality. These themes are used throughout the text to show the struggles Goodman Brown faces on his … Continue reading →