HAWTHORNE & POE ON DREAMS

I read a story about "Young Goodman brown" and a poem called " A Dream Within A Dream."  I think the of authors wrote a similar theme. They also used particular words in describing whether we are dreaming. Hawthorne and Poe use metaphors in there writing. Is everything we really experience reality or a dream? I know we can't we prove we are asleep but i think that's the main point the authors are trying to make us think.

A other way to look at their work and how it's similar because they both talked about how bad humanity is and all this madness in the world really real. The way Hawthorne wrote it is"My Faith is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given." Everything that Young Brown believed in was destroyed because all the people he trust betrayal-ed him by believing in the devil and doing bad things for him.It's also the way Poe worded his words. He said, "O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave? In my perspective I think he trying to say he can't save someone from the evil in the world. 

     The way Poe rhythms his words. For example: "Is but a dream within a dream." I think he is trying to say  that if reality is a dream but when we supposedly fall sleep in reality we are just dreaming . inside a another dream. It really  made me take a look at the world differently. Just like Hawthorne  he looks at it a different point of view. They are both talking about if it's a dream and the evil there is in the world. They come to the same conclusion just a different. Just like math  you can solve the problem the standard way and other people solve it a different way because they get the same answer.

In Hawthorne’s story used a an object and a person to represent hope. He use Young Brown’s wife name and the pink ribbon. He uses this to symbolize hope. He also wore a part where Young good Brown was in the forest with a devil. Telling the devil he  believes that his wife wouldn’t do anything evil or support it. The devil just laughed. Young Brown saw his wife with her pink ribbon wondering into the forest. He saw her going towards the darkness as in the evilness. In that moment the husband lost all his hope in his wife but in the people he knew too because his wife was his hope and the pink ribbon as significantly his faith in good. Where as Poe said, “Yet if hope has flown away.” I think he was meaning that hope was just gone and there was none.

Overall, this really showed how both of the authors thought alike but in different way. Hawthorne wrote it as a story and Poe wrote it a poem. I got to read it in two different styles. In my opinion, the way they wrote made me think it's about us dreaming and the evil intentions people have around us. We really can't trust people too much.