Formalistic Approach to Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB

Formalistic Approach to Young Goodman brownness   The Formalistic Approach coffin nail be found through prohibited Young Goodman Brown, a short humbug written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Formalistic Approach is one of the most often used approaches. It concentrates on the concepts of form, tension, image, and symbol as well as propose of view, irony, and paradox. These styles appear throughout the story. Form in the past has meant what is now cognise as external form, the way one identifies the work. This type of form is unremarkably associated with poetry. Organic form is important to critics. Emphasis on organicism is not respectable in literary forms but in a broader, philosophical context, where the gentlemans gentleman itself is organic... headspring of view is another device in the Formalistic Approach. Point of view, preserves the internal form, the organic quality of the work. (Handbook pg.87) Tension, irony, and paradox atomic number 18 the block of opposit es. The basic terms -tension, irony, and paradox- are often nearly indistinguishable, so almost do they work together.(Handbook pg. 90) A term introduced by Allen Tate, heart the constitutive(a) unity that results from the successful resolution of the conflicts of abstraction and concreteness... (Handbook pg. 90)   Ambiguity is also evidence in Young Goodman Brown. Paradoxical as it may gibem, we suggest that ambiguity is a formal device in Young Goodman Brown.(Handbook pg.97) One way to see ambiguity in the work, as suggested by the Handbook of Critical Approaches, is to clue the relationships of light and dark. The daylight and darkness of the town and the (dark) forest is important.   Young Goodman Brown is a story that is easily understood. The broad use of symbolism jumps out to the reader making the story fun and interesting, while displaying the meaning and wry twists of events. In Young Goodman Brown, the image almost immediately takes on exemplary qualit ies. For example, the pink ribbons in the hair of Faith, Browns wife. This is a reference to and has the same meaning as Hester Prynnes scarlet A. Another good example of ambiguity and symbolism is the fact that Faiths ribbons are pink, an in between color. Red is a symbol of evil or being provocative and white is a symbol of purity and innocence. Like the admixture of light and dark in the tale... the ribbons are neither red nor white. They are somewhere between they are ambiguity objectified.