《年轻的布朗先生》中的人格面具与自我的形成_英语论文

Persona and Individuation in Young Goodman Brown

摘要

纳撒尼尔·霍桑是美国十九世纪影响最大的浪漫主义小说家,他的作品常常以殖民地时期的新英格兰为背景,描写了清教主义统治下的人们的生活和命运,记录并探讨了清教特有的原罪、罪过等观念。本文运用荣格关于人格面具、自性、阴影的原型理论来探究霍桑的短篇小说《年轻的布朗先生》中主人公人生的悲剧，分析他在宗教的要求和压迫下是如何认同自己的人格面具而忽视了阴影人格，拒绝承认自己的阴影人格，导致自己成为不完整的人，从而导致人的悲剧。批判了清教思想对人心灵的禁锢和折磨。

关键词：霍桑  年轻的布朗先生  人格面具  个性  阴影

Abstract

This paper makes an analytical study of Hawthorn’s well-known short story Young Goodman Brown. Reading it from the perspective of Jung’s theory of man’s individuation, it explores the relationship between social morality and individuation under the religious civilization in the colonial period of New England. It argues that focusing only on or emphasizing too much social morality and ignoring or suppressing a person’s individuality bring great problems to both man and the society and the shadow’s positive effect shouldn’t  be ignored to make a man to be a whole man.

Key words: Hawthorne   Young Goodman Brown   Persona   Individuation   Shadow

Contents

Introduction 7

Chapter1: Persona and Individuation in Jung’s Theory 8

1.1 Persona is the Embodiment of the Social Rules 9

1.2 Individuation and Shadow of Humans 10

1.3 Relationship between Persona and Individuation 12

Chapter 2: Developing Persona and Repressing Shadow too much for Brown 14

2.1The Negative Influence of the Ignorance of Shadow 14

2.2 Over-developed Persona Makes a Man Incomplete 15

2.3 Brown in the Alienating Society 17

Chapter 3: Brown’s Failure in Individuation 18

Conclusion 19