Compare and Contrast: Cask of Amontillado and Young Goodman Brown

After reading “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Young Goodman Brown,” I have recognized the three components of the Romantic story. Gothicism, the Grotesque, and Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, are all key building blocks of the Romantic story. Consider the different way that each author entwines the Gothic fundamentals of literature into their story. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator, Montresor waits until the carnival season, a time of “supreme madness,” to seek revenge …

…in him. Goodman Brown feels disgusted and shameful because he never saw the real townspeople, he only saw them the way that he wanted to see them. He now hides behind his belief that all of humanity is evil, and that “evil is the way of the world.” Goodman Brown feels disgusted and shameful because he never saw the real townspeople; he only saw them the way that he wanted to see them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**