ホーソーンと「悪」の問題 : "Young Goodman BROWN"を中心に

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"Young Goodman Brown"is a remarkable tale set in 17th century Salem, a village in New England. Hawthorne's historical vision is focused on newly-married young Goodman Brown with Half-Way Covenant which means that he still is a half outsider of the Puritan community. This study examines the significance of Brown's "errand into the Wilderness" i.e. his attendance at a withes'sabbath. Whether this scene is a reality or a dream we cannot decide because of the narrator's tricky, ambiguous narrative. But at any rate, this rite is psychologically interpreted to be Brown's initiation rite, though he turns away at the very climax. This signifies the total failure of his maturation process, that is, the sublation of "good"and"evil". the rest of Brown's life is to be doomed by evil, but far from it, he isolates himself from the Puritan community and damns all of those around him except himself. His hypocrisy is, in a sense, a bad omen of the witch craze in 1692.
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