Goodman Brown Matrix

Axia College Material

Appendix C

Young Goodman Brown Matrix

Using the Web site listed below, choose passages that embody plot, setting, and symbolism, and fill out the matrix. Then, answer the question below the matrix.

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/YoungGoodmanBrown/elements.asp

| |Young Goodman Brown |

|Plot |Passage and Page Number: (pg. 80) “Dearest heart,” whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips |

| |were close to his ear, “prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your bed to-night. A lone |

| |woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she’s afeared of herself sometimes. Pray tarry |

| |with me this night dear husband, of all nights in the year.” |

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| |How This Passage Embodies Plot: This passage embodies plot because the main character, Goodman Brown, is |

| |about to go on a long journey and his own wife, Faith, is afraid for him and begs him early on to wait |

| |until the next morning to begin. This fear leads to an opening for the rest of the story and how her fear |

| |is proven correct. |

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