ight in the woods was Goodman Brown. As he entered the village he saw Faith gazing anxiously forth any sign of him.. Once she saw him, she burst into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village. But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting”(947). Goodman Brown is then punished the rest of his life, due to his unrealistic belief that everyone is perfect and no one sins. Goodman Brown is very distrustful to everyone in his community and ironically creates his own hell.“The Fall of the House of Usher”, by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man named Roderick Usher and the insanity that he experiences after the death of his sister Madeline. The narrator of the story is an old friend of Roderick and visits him in his time of grief and misery.On the night the narrator arrives, Roderick’s sister Madeline finally passes away. Roderick is very disturbed by his sister’s death. Roderick begins to go insane after the burial of his sister. Stricken with guilt, he starts to believe that she is still alive in her tomb. The narrator tries to calm Roderick by reading him a story entitled “Mad Twist.” This story is very ironic to the situation that the narrator is resolving. “It was, however, the only book immediately at hand: and I indulged a vague hope that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief (for the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies) even in the extremes of the folly which I should read”(774). As the narrator reads deeper into the story, Roderick believes even stronger that his sister is coming from the grave to get him. It is at this point in the story that the narrator starts to get spooked by Roderick’s insanity. “No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than –as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the momen...
