RESEARCH PAPER
- What is your thesis?
(This statement should be only one sentence long and must have three things in it: the name of the primary source author(s), the name of the primary source/story or stories, and the main idea that you are trying to prove. If possible, you may also provide a plan of development and list your 3-4 major points.)
The paper tries to analyze whether the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, Young Goodman Brown, is a hero or a dupe. It will show how Brown’s weaknesses, including conceit, leads to his demise. The analysis will be made keeping in mind the allegory in the story and how it hampers in arriving at a single conclusion.
- How will you support or prove your thesis? What 3-5 major points will you make in your paper?
Supporting Paragraph One— This section will talk about the allegory of Young Goodman Brown’s name. It lays the foundation to analyze Brown’s nature
Supporting Paragraph Two— It argues both sides of the topic: considering Brown as a heroic figure and considering him as a dupe. The second paragraph mentions the weaknesses of the protagonist in order to show how he fails to become a heroic figure.
Supporting Paragraph Three— It details the first weakness of Brown. It shows how Brown is a selfish man who is willing to sacrifice faith, which is also the name of his wife, in order to pursue his own ambition
Supporting Paragraph Four— The fourth paragraph talks about the loss of innocence and inherent corruptibility in Brown
Supporting Paragraph Five— It discusses Brown as a self-righteous person who is arrogant in his belief that no one in his family has ever committed a sin.
Conclusion – The conclusion not only sums up Brown’s weakness, but also shows how impossible it is to arrive at a single conclusion.
**You may have to add on to this or you may not use all the above blanks.
- For your first supporting paragraph, what quotations from your sources can you use to prove your point? Write 3-5 convincing quotations from the story and their page numbers in the space below. Then write at least 1-2 quotations from secondary source(s) and its author and page number in the space below.
The first paragraph is a general paragraph about how the name of Hawthorne’s protagonist may be considered an allegory. So no quotations used from the text, but quoted Laurie A Sterling’s book Bloom's How to Write about Nathaniel Hawthorne to show the allegory of Brown’s name
- For your second supporting paragraph, what quotations from your sources can you use to prove your point? Write 3-5 convincing quotations from the story and their page numbers in the space below. Then write at least 1-2 quotations from secondary source(s) and its author and page number in the space below.
The second paragraph argues both sides of the thesis and, therefore, does not have any primary or secondary citations.
- For your third supporting paragraph, what quotations from your sources can you use to prove your point? Write 3-5 convincing quotations from the story and their page numbers in the space below. Then write at least 1-2 quotations from secondary source(s) and its author and page number in the space below.
Primary citation: “after this on night I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven” (Hawthorne, p. 1184). The quotation is used to the selfish nature of Brown and the excuses he makes to justify his quest
- For your fourth supporting paragraph, what quotations from your sources can you use to prove your point? Write 3-5 convincing quotations from the story and their page numbers in the space below. Then write at least 1-2 quotations from secondary source(s) and its author and page number in the space below.
No quotations used
- For your fifth supporting paragraph, what quotations from your sources can you use to prove your point? Write 3-5 convincing quotations from the story and their page numbers in the space below. Then write at least 1-2 quotations from secondary source(s) and its author and page number in the space below.
“the Lady of the Governor was thereGood old Deacon Gook in has arrivedreputable and pious people the sinners were not abashed by the saints.”(Hawthorne, p. 1190)
It shows Hawthorne’s tendency to “give evidence with one hand and take it back with the other – to create ambiguity of human perception and conclusion, leaving us suspended in a subjective indeterminate realm with no stable ground” (Person 42).
- What questions or concerns do you have at this point in the process? How can I help you? (Please be specific.)
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