Short essay on camparison of "Araby" and "Young Goodman Brown"

The short stories "Araby" by James Joyce and "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both stories about change; however both characters change in very different ways. Organized religion imposes a rebut of prescribed behavior on natural curiosity and growth and in turn causes one to seek it out on there own. In "Araby" an unnamed young boy of about twelve or thirteen depicts his personal coming of age. Due to strong religious obligations, sexuality …

…their lives is different. Both characters go through change but how and the severity of the change varies. The young child in Araby discovers what life is actually like outside the church. Brown's perception has changed for his whole life. If Goodman brown's curiosity of the forbidden hadn't led him into the dark forest to meet with the devil. If the Unnamed boy didn't go the Bazaar he would have not had a growing experience.