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Goodman Brown's Journey for Initiation Hawthorn's short story " Young Goodman Brown" is available for mythological or archetypal approach. However, only understand what is mythological approach can we apply it to criticizing in practice. Actually, there are various definitions for myth criticism, of which one is well acknowledged that it is " to seek out those mysterious elements that inform certain literary works and that elicit, with almost uncanny force, dramatic and universal human reactions." In other words, myth criticism's primary concern is to find out "archetypes" or "archetypal pattern", initiated by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the word " archetype" was much used in ancient Greek, "arche" meaning "root" and "origin" while "typos" "pattern" or "model". The modern concept of the archetype refers to the recurring literary phenomena such as motifs, themes, and narrative designs. To criticize "Young Goodman Brown" by using "mythological approach, we necessarily turn to Jung's...

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