What are some similarities and differences between Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and the opening chapter of Melville's Moby-Dick?

Various
similarities and differences (but mostly differences) exist between s short story and Herman
Melvilles novel Moby-Dick. Here are a few of the similarities:

• Both works are set, at least initially, in New England.


• Both works focus on journeys made by young men.
• Both young men
  have names that prove to be symbolic.

Here, however, are a
number of significant differences:

• Melvilles Ishmael narrates his
  own journey; Browns journey is reported by a narrator.
• Ishmael, at the time
  of his journey, is apparently unmarried; this is not true of Brown.


• Ishmael, in the very first paragraph of the novel, displays an attractive sense of
  humor; Brown is rather humorless throughout his tale. Ishmael is the more complex of the two
  characters.
• Ishmael, at first, is much more isolated than Brown. Brown
  meets a companion in the forest and meets other acquaintances along the way, while Ishmael is
  initially much more of a loner.
• Ishmael will be journeying out onto the
  sea, while Brown will be journeying into the forest.
• Brown never seems to
  have journeyed much beyond his small town before, whereas Ishmael is familiar with the large
  city of New York.
• We are offered very little insight, at first, into what
  Brown may be thinking; Ishmael, in contrast, is speculative and openly reflective right from the
  start.
• Because Brown does not narrate his own story, he has no opportunity
  to address the reader, whereas Ishmael addresses his readers in the very first sentences of the
  story, as if beginning an extended exchange with them:

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no
money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about
a little and see the watery part of the world.

• Browns story deals quite explicitly with matters of good and evil, whereas
  the focus on good and evil in Melvilles novel is not especially stressed in the very first
  chapter.
• The style of Hawthornes story is fairly obviously symbolic and
  allegorical right from the start; the first chapter of Moby-Dick, however
  is more convincingly and deliberately realistic.

Other contrasts
might easily be listed, but these are enough to indicate some of the significant differences
between the two works.