For a long time people have been fascinated with what their destiny is, and how they can shape it. However, more often than not it has been found that people cannot control their destiny, it controls them. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne destiny controls Young Goodman Browns’ actions even though he does not want it to. In the story, the Gun by Mark Haddon although Daniel tries to control his destiny, it ends up controlling him as well as the story.
Destiny controls Young Goodman Browns actions. In Young Goodman Brown, Brown’s destiny is to go into the woods and become a Satanist. Brown goes into the woods to spite his better judgement and his wife telling him not to go. Once in the woods he meets a rival sense, Old Goodman Brown, telling him to go and become a Satanist. However, as the two men start traveling into the woods Brown starts to regret his choices. He turns to go back remarking, “…I will yet stand firm against the devil!” (lawn 7) at this point brown is defying his destiny, but as he is leaving to woods he finds his wife’s hair ribbon in a tree. After this he goes deep into the woods where he eventually finds her at the satanic meeting which he was trying to turn away from. His wife was the only thing stopping him from fully accepting his destiny. Once she had gone into the woods he gave up hope of …show more content…
However, they used destiny in different ways. Many people have tried to escape destiny throughout history and it will be repeated again and again in the future. This is because it is human nature. People tend to get scared by what they do not know, especially when it has already been planned out. For example, all people die eventually but somehow people still try to cheat death. People try all different things just like Brown and Daniel but in the end just like in the stories we all meet our
Destiny controls Young Goodman Browns actions. In Young Goodman Brown, Brown’s destiny is to go into the woods and become a Satanist. Brown goes into the woods to spite his better judgement and his wife telling him not to go. Once in the woods he meets a rival sense, Old Goodman Brown, telling him to go and become a Satanist. However, as the two men start traveling into the woods Brown starts to regret his choices. He turns to go back remarking, “…I will yet stand firm against the devil!” (lawn 7) at this point brown is defying his destiny, but as he is leaving to woods he finds his wife’s hair ribbon in a tree. After this he goes deep into the woods where he eventually finds her at the satanic meeting which he was trying to turn away from. His wife was the only thing stopping him from fully accepting his destiny. Once she had gone into the woods he gave up hope of …show more content…
However, they used destiny in different ways. Many people have tried to escape destiny throughout history and it will be repeated again and again in the future. This is because it is human nature. People tend to get scared by what they do not know, especially when it has already been planned out. For example, all people die eventually but somehow people still try to cheat death. People try all different things just like Brown and Daniel but in the end just like in the stories we all meet our