In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman Brown makes a choice of joining evil through much decision, and in turn, his experiences makes his life lonely and miserable. As Goodman Brown leaves his wife, Faith, to go to the forest to take a dangerous and unknown path, he thinks to himself, "Well, she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven" (81). Goodman Brown believes he can depend on his wife's "faith" to save him, so it won't matter if he leaves his own "faith" at home because it will be waiting for him when he returns. Even though Goodman Brown senses a feeling of uncertainty, he still continues with his evil journey. His decision is justified by the promise that he makes to himself that all will be well when h

The play "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles demonstrates that choices, decisions and one's life experiences influence the outcome of events in one's life. To begin with, Oedipus was a shrewd man furnished with wit and intellect, yet his lack of insight (the ability to see and understand clearly the inner nature of himself) and his arrogance, led to his demise by not making the right choices and decisions throughout life. Oedipus acknowledges the fact that he murdered his father, and married his mother. Regardless of this outcome, he never contemplated on a decision or took time to choose under various circumstances. At one point, Teiresias argues, "You mock my blindness, do you? But I say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: You cannot see the wretchedness of your life, Nor in whose house you live, no, nor with whom" (197). This verse, allows the reader to perceive the notion that Oedipus became unaware of the decisions and choices

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