ENG 1120 Final: "Young Goodman Brown".docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Only about 200 years old; early decades of 19th century; A carefully crafted work of art, with very controlled and focused plot, and well-drawn, believable characters, and deliberate use of narrative design; Preoccupied with the psychological make-up of the human being; A philosophy emphasized during the age of enlightenment in the 18th century. Exalted human reason and logic; control over self and world. Distrusted and/or ignored the miraculous and the supernatural. Late 18th and early 19th centuries, was a reaction against rationalism Explored the validity of emotion, instinct and intuition, and perceptions and experiences that cannot be rationally explained. Focused on the importance of the individual"s inner experience and personality. Romance narratives: often set in the remote past in idealized or supernatural settings (castles, ruins, forests). The characters usually represent extremes of human types or at least have exaggerated qualities (tending to be 1 or 2 dimensional in nature).