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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown". The story is interpreted through a psychoanalytic perspective, with critical support. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a writer notable for dabbling in Gothic themes, and certainly his other works, such as the novel "The Scarlet Letter" convey a sort of sympathy for the individual who is
able to attain a state of personal goodness and integrity in spite of being at odds with the unfair and stringent prescriptions of Puritan society. This interest in the individual
carries over into "Young Goodman Brown", where the titular characters foray into the forest is representative not just of the concrete narrative events in the story, but also his own
psychological journey as he struggles to come to terms with the existence of human evil in a society that purports to hold itself above evil. This paragraph helps the student
introduce the basic ideas of the story. The story itself is a simple one. Goodman Brown, fascinated by evil, ventures into the forest at night. While there, he witnesses demonic
sights and longs to return to his village, only to discover that everyone he knows from the village, including his young wife Faith, are already there with him. While the
vision eventually vanishes, it lingers with Goodman. After he returns home, he becomes fixated on the disparity between the "good" fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation
with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrative in the context of Goodman becoming psychologically withdrawn and insular because of his realization that everyone else in
the town is secretly harboring evil within them (Tritt 1986, p. 113). However, others, such as critic Michael Tritt, apply a view stemming from the psychoanalytic perspective, in which Goodman
in fact becomes withdrawn precisely because he is unable to come to terms with his own evil, and thus projects his sense of guilt onto the rest of the townspeople
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