A mythological critic examines a work for repeating patterns that show the reasoning for various aspects of human life. In other words, upon analyzing a piece of literature, one will discover the "why's" of the human race. This could be anything from birth and death to defeating death itself. A story that contains these aspects would be "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this story, Goodman Brown has to take a spiritual journey on …showed first 75 words of 433 total…

…showed last 75 words of 433 total…last excerpt you can discern pure evil from the rhetorical usage of the words: fading, far-off, laughter, dark, swept, silent, etc. This entire work of literature very descriptive imagery is used to give the reader a sense of impending doom and despair and finally ending unresolved. The original journey to resolve Goodman's mind of good and evil, starts with uncertainty, leading into despair then to an absolution that these supposedly pious people are really evil.