An Analysis Of Young Goodman Brown's 'Blame Others'
Blame Others
Psychological projection is one of the many types of defense mechanism. People use this type if defense to cope with their own emotions and feelings. Rather than dealing and admitting how you feeling you, instead, project it out onto others. Towards the end of the short story, Brown has a vision, or some may argue a dream, about his wife and peers basically worshiping the devil in a local forest. Young Goodman Brown received that illusion, or dream if you will, because of his own psychological projection problem. Young Goodman Brown doesn’t live up to his name, he felt ashamed to have been associating with the devil in the woods, and he was looking for something blasphemic in the woods anyway. There’s an old saying that validates …show more content…
For example, one would say that the common qualities of a ‘good man’ can for the most part include loyalty, respect, or honesty, but in this case Brown isn’t any of these things. For instance, he purposely explored the wicked forest leaving his (fairly new) wife at home after she bagged him to stay. It is implied at the beginning Brown knew that the forest was wicked and so did his wife, “Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose (620)”, but yet he still goes anyway. Then after that, he, as far as we know, witnesses some outrageous activities occurring in the forest. Soon after witnessing this event, Brown would not only change his perspective on his wife but it changed his entire perspective on everything and everyone around him. Switching up on your own wife is far from loyalty and that’s certainly not a good man …show more content…
The devil conversates with Brown and convinces him to walk with his stick. He has been swindled by the devil, even after he knew it was the devil! Would a true christian allow himself to be fooled by the devil? At this point, he has let down his family's reputation. The cliche expected position of being a good Christian. During the course of this time, as the reader you can possibly argue that rather than dealing with not being a strong Christian, and then on top of that dealing with the fact that he’s not a good man, he instead psychologically takes a turn for the
Psychological projection is one of the many types of defense mechanism. People use this type if defense to cope with their own emotions and feelings. Rather than dealing and admitting how you feeling you, instead, project it out onto others. Towards the end of the short story, Brown has a vision, or some may argue a dream, about his wife and peers basically worshiping the devil in a local forest. Young Goodman Brown received that illusion, or dream if you will, because of his own psychological projection problem. Young Goodman Brown doesn’t live up to his name, he felt ashamed to have been associating with the devil in the woods, and he was looking for something blasphemic in the woods anyway. There’s an old saying that validates …show more content…
For example, one would say that the common qualities of a ‘good man’ can for the most part include loyalty, respect, or honesty, but in this case Brown isn’t any of these things. For instance, he purposely explored the wicked forest leaving his (fairly new) wife at home after she bagged him to stay. It is implied at the beginning Brown knew that the forest was wicked and so did his wife, “Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose (620)”, but yet he still goes anyway. Then after that, he, as far as we know, witnesses some outrageous activities occurring in the forest. Soon after witnessing this event, Brown would not only change his perspective on his wife but it changed his entire perspective on everything and everyone around him. Switching up on your own wife is far from loyalty and that’s certainly not a good man …show more content…
The devil conversates with Brown and convinces him to walk with his stick. He has been swindled by the devil, even after he knew it was the devil! Would a true christian allow himself to be fooled by the devil? At this point, he has let down his family's reputation. The cliche expected position of being a good Christian. During the course of this time, as the reader you can possibly argue that rather than dealing with not being a strong Christian, and then on top of that dealing with the fact that he’s not a good man, he instead psychologically takes a turn for the