An Analysis of the Protagonist in Young Goodman Brown:The Disintegration of the“Old Self”  

作　　者：ZHANG Xin 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2024年第10期564-567,共4页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the great American romantic novelists of the 19th century,and his Young Goodman Brown is a classic short story about human nature.With the theme of“human nature is evil”,it presents the main character’s psychological contradiction and struggle when facing the“dark”truth.The purpose of this paper is to do a close reading,to interpret the dilemma of human nature and the protagonist’s disintegration of the“old self”,so as to bring out philosophical reflections on human nature and human predicament.

关 键 词：Young Goodman Brown old self human nature 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]