Monday, September 2, 2019
Trittââ¬â¢s View of Young Goodman Brown :: Young Goodman Brown YGB
Trittââ¬â¢s View of ââ¬Å"Young Goodman Brownâ⬠In the article, ââ¬Å"ââ¬ËYoung Goodman Brownââ¬â¢ and the Psychology of Projectionâ⬠, Michael Tritt critically analyzes Nathaniel Hawthorneââ¬â¢s ââ¬Å"Young Goodman Brownâ⬠to construct the process of how Hawthorne regards Goodman Brownââ¬â¢s behavior. Tritt examines the phenomenon of projection in psychology and believes that ââ¬Å"Brownââ¬â¢s compulsive condemnation of others, along with his consistent denial of his own culpability, illustrates a classically defined case of projectionâ⬠(116). He defines projection as an unconscious process when a person projects their own traits or desires onto other people, thus representing a false perception on whom the projection is made. Tritt perceives Goodman Brownââ¬â¢s withdrawal is from the persuasion that he has not fallen in with his devilish community, thus Goodman Brown projects his guilt to them in an attempt to escape a guilty subconscious. While Goodman Brown is in the forest, he locates his anxieties upon the community that he lives in. The experience in the forest actually depicts Goodman Brownââ¬â¢s own evils. Tritt refers to Goodman Brown snatching away a child being catechized by Goody Cloyse: If Brown truly conceives of himself as fallen, why would he snatch the child from one fiend to yield yet another, namely himself? Brown must believe himself untainted, or at least less tainted than various members of his community. (115) Michael Tritt believes that Brownââ¬â¢s anxieties inevitably stick within his subconscious forever. The anxieties suggest a psychological design with aspects of misperception and false perception to reveal a projection process. Tritt asserts that Goodman Brownââ¬â¢s evil is located in others, and Brown believes himself to be without guilt although his desires are still in his subconscious. It is a ââ¬Å"vice-like grip with which such process is paralyzing, indeed terrifyingâ⬠(Tritt 116). Undoubtedly, Michael Tritt uses a psychological strategy to critically analyze ââ¬Å"Young Goodman Brownâ⬠. He carefully constructs his criticism through quotes from other critics and the short story. Sigmund Freud is also quoted because he theorized the projection process.
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