Young Goodman Brown & Dream Within a Dream Essay

         When we’re asleep and dreaming of an endless moment it’s just temporary fantasy that suddenly fades away. In the story of “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he shows how a dream can take power over your mind. The poem “A Dream Within A Dream,” by Edgar Allan Poe describes how dreams can be made up of anything, good or bad, but it soon fades away because it isn’t real, it’s our imagination. From the poem and story it’s based off how a dream can change your way of thinking. But both stories have a different meaning towards their dreams.

         Dreams can overcome your thoughts towards anything. In “Young Goodman Brown” Brown had gone into the forest and then a figure appears and started talking to him about his family which lead him to loose faith and trust. In paragraph 15 the figure of a person said “ I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem.” As the figure of the person had told Brown this information about his grandfather he couldn’t think of any reason onto how a stranger  knows certain information about his family. In paragraph 19 and 20 Brown says “ there is my wife, Faith. It would break her dear little heart; and I’d rather break my own! Nay if that be the case, answered the other, e’en go thy ways, Goodman Brown.” From this text it’s shows the trust  that Brown has in the person that he had berly meet  instead of his own thought. Due to the confidence that Brown shows towards the person it means that he would believe and do what he says.

        Our dreams is a form of experience based off our emotions and what we want ourselves to think. In the poem “A Dream Within a Dream,” the author Edgar Allan Poe describes how a dream can be hard to remember like trying to hold sand in the palm of your hand. On line 6-9 it says “ Yet if hope has flown away, In night, or in a day, In vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone?” The quote is say that it doesn’t matter the time of how your dream happened or how it did are you still able to remember everything thing? Also on lines 14-16 it says “ And I hold within my hand, Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep.” From the quote the author is comparing how hard it is to keep the same amount of sand in your hand without it falling off with trying to remember what your whole dream was exactly about. Stating what the poem ment is that dreams can’t be fully remembered.
     
        Dreams are a way to imagine what we want but won’t be able remember because it was our imagination. As hard as it can seem to remember what really happened it was just a period of time where we used our thoughts. Therefore both poems have similarities meanings  but different descriptions onto perusing there point.