Prompt: In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who conforms outwardly while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
There are forces brought up to the world of beliefs and practices. The semi-existing dream or sudden epiphany recalls Goodman Brown into another a demeaning reality. The protagonist faces those who seem out of place, those suspicious upon the audience’s perspective, but not that to Young Goodman Brown’s author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Since the protagonist travels along a path, acquainted or not, Goodman Brown senses an ever changing self in the course of a traditional society. The practices that one group may do depends on the individuals who take on the beliefs, so that’s where the protagonist struggles to make amends with his morals or with society’s meaning of beliefs
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