Reflection, YGB

The Romantic Era sounded like a tough place to be, but with these writers maybe it gave people a place to go when times were hard.  Though the stories were not happy endings, they still took your mind into a new world.   In Young Goodman Brown, the Romanticism showed through the mystical forest, ghostly characters, and the entire dream vs. reality concept.  Everyone likes a story when good and evil duel, in this case evil triumphed which was sad.  When you look at the 2 stories (brown and Spades), they somewhat ended the similarly.  Brown and Herman ended up with their minds severely messed with.  They were unsure about reality after their encounters.  In class it was brought up about the crick in the road, and how maybe Brown wasn't suppose to end up where he did.  I would say it is like a metaphor.  You should always watch where you are walking on your journey in life, one false move and you could headed in the wrong direction.