The Myth of The Mind: Analyzing Minotaur in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minotaur”

create an abstract that introduces my thesis: the Minotaur in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minotaur” is representative of humans and their inner beast trapped inside of the unconscious, which in the myth is the labyrinth. include that the Minotaur was made from a woman and a beast and although the Minotaur is beastly and feared, he also can be analyzed as a human with human behavior and that it is not his fault her was created as a beast, critical theory used is psychoanalytic theory where Psychoanalytic theorists believe that human behavior is deterministic. It is governed by irrational forces, and the unconscious, as well instinctual and biological drives